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From: alain@cs.uchicago.edu (Alain Roy)
Subject: Cross-platform code sharing
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Lately, I've been writing code in Macintosh Common Lisp. And I've been
sharing code with a colleague using Unix. Currently, we share code by
using RCS on the Unix box. I check files in and out on the Unix box and
ftp them to my computer. This sort of works...

However, I tend to forget to check out files on every revision. I'll check
out a file, but not FTP it to my computer, assuming that I have the latest
revision. Then I modify it and check it back in. Oops. I lost the latest
changes. Since the files aren't protected on my mac in any automatic way
(since I'm just using FTP to get the files) it's easy to make mistakes.

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience in sharing code across
platforms. Does anyone have any suggestions to help make my code sharing
experiences better?

Thanks much.

-alain
