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h1. Managing Software As Data
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The same issues as for data arise:
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* Backing up
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* Documentation
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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.
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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, documentation, issue lists and wikis through its "code repository":http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk