Source Server Reference

SourceServer v. 3.4.2 Reference Contents Introduction..................................................................................................................1 Hardware and Software Requirements ........................................................................1 General Description .....................................................................................................2 Human Interface...........................................................................................................3 Combining with ToolServer.........................................................................................4 Supported Commands ..................................................................................................5 Client Development Information .................................................................................9 Source Code Example—SendCmnd Tool....................................................................10 Introduction SourceServer is a standalone version of the MPW Shell’s Projector that provides users with source code control for a software project. SourceServer performs as a server application that has no user interface; all of its commands come to it via AppleEvents. It is up to client applications to determine which Projector commands they support, what user interface they provide, and to issue the corresponding commands to SourceServer. Except for features relating to the user interface, we emphasize that SourceServer 3.4.2 is identical to Projector as found in MPW 3.4.2. Hardware and Software Requirements SourceServer requires a Macintosh running System 7.0 or later with AppleEvents. SourceServer itself comes preconfigured to use the same amount of memory as ToolServer, which is 768K of RAM. Best performance is achieved if both the cooperating development environment and SourceServer can be co-resident in memory. Using ToolServer as an example client, the total recommended memory requirement is 4 megabytes. SourceServer — “Prerelease” 4–1 MPW Pro #18 Release Notes General Description As was stated in the introduction, SourceServer is a standalone version of the MPW Shell’s Projector that provides a means to control and account for changes to all the files associated with a software project. All of the project’s files are stored, along with compacted prior versions and history, in a database named ProjectorDB. Subprojects are created by nesting ProjectorDB files within a hierarchy of folders. This nesting is done automatically during the NewProject operation. SourceServer is a single application with the creator signature 'MPSP' to differentiate it from the Shell’s 'MPS.' However, it performs all Projector functions on ProjectorDB files that have creator signatures of 'MPS.' This is done to allow all projects to be …