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h1. Managing Software As Data

The same issues as Software for data arise:
* Backing up
* Documentation

However whereas data changes slowly / infrequently software is subject to ongoing changes during a project and the source code should therefore be stored in a suitable version control system (e.g. Mercurial, Subversion, git). Additionally, binary releases of software may be created as downloads.

The "Sound Software":http://www.soundsoftware.ac.uk project provides software project management facilities for
digital music and audio research including Mercurial version control, downloads, issue lists and wikis through its can be hosted on the "Sound Software":http://www.soundsoftware.ac.uk "code repository"::http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk