Cross-Platform Development in C++: Building Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows Applications

3. Software Configuration Management

A software configuration management (SCM) system consists of tools and processes used to manage the source code of a project and to assess its state. With these tools, management and developers can do the following:

• Peruse the source code managed by the SCM system
• Obtain a local copy of the source code
• Submit modifications made to the source code by developers
• Understand which changes have been made to the source code by developers
• Determine the state of the source code (for example, whether it compiles)
• Log and track defects associated with binaries created from the source code

In a cross-platform project, certain aspects of an SCM system take on added importance. In this chapter, I describe the tools that ...