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Steve Welburn, 2012-11-13 03:00 PM


Managing Software As Data

The same issues as for data arise:
  • Backing up
  • Documentation

However, whereas data changes slowly / infrequently, software is subject to ongoing changes during a project. Source code for software usually consists of text files and 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 for a project.

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