Seapine Software Announces Surround SCM 3.1 - Image Thumbnail Support and CVS Conversion Utility Headline New Release.MASON, Ohio Mason is a city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, Mason's population was 22,016. It was the fastest-growing and most populous city in the county. Until February 1997, it was part of Deerfield Township. -- Seapine Software Seapine Software is a privately-held, Mason, Ohio-based software and services company whose products address software application lifecycle management and quality assurance. , Inc., a leading provider of adaptable application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (AALM AALM adaptable application lifecycle management AALM All-Ages Lead Model AALM American Alliance for Loan Management ) solutions, announced today the immediate availability of Surround SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. 3.1 for software change management (SCM). Version 3.1 of Seapine's cross-platform SCM solution, with versions available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris, includes news features to work with image files, a CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. conversion utility, and numerous security and usability enhancements. Surround SCM 3.1 includes a number of new features to address the unique change management needs of graphic artists and software developers who work with image files. Users can now easily switch between the traditional text listing of source files and a thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple view that lets them visually identify image files. They can also view the full size image file from within Surround SCM, eliminating the need to open a separate application. Surround SCM's built-in image differencing (diff) utility lets users view two versions of an image file simultaneously to determine what changed between versions. It can also overlay (1) A preprinted, precut form placed over a screen, key or tablet for identification purposes. See keyboard template. (2) A program segment called into memory when required. two images to show users what changed at the pixel level. Support for 25 common image formats is included in this release. "Surround SCM's new image management features are an exciting addition that will benefit all our customers," said Richard Riccetti, president of Seapine Software. "Most software applications have images files that require the same change management process as source code. Game and Web development in particular are graphics-intense. Identifying these files visually in the source control system and performing visual diffs on them are real time savers. Once you work with image files from within Surround SCM 3.1, it is hard to go back to the old way of working with them by filename file·name also file name n. A name given to a computer file to distinguish it from other files, often containing an extension that classifies it by type. ." In addition, Surround SCM 3.1 includes a conversion utility that enables CVS users, the most popular open-source version control tool, to easily convert their CVS archives to Surround SCM databases. The conversion utility migrates CVS repositories, projects, files, file history, tags, users, and user security groups into Surround SCM--maintaining the directory structure and historic data. Rounding out the new release, Surround SCM 3.1 enhancements include advanced searching options, additional file reporting, post-event triggers, and more. Availability and Pricing Surround SCM 3.1 is available immediately. Pricing for Surround SCM begins at $595.00 for a Named license; Floating license pricing is also available. For additional information on evaluating or purchasing Surround SCM 3.1, go to: http://www.seapine.com/surroundscm.html. About Seapine Software Seapine Software, Inc., located in Mason, Ohio, develops industry-leading solutions for software development. Seapine's scalable product line automates the software development lifecycle. More than 6,400 companies worldwide use Seapine's products to develop higher quality software solutions. For more information about Seapine Software and its products, go to: http://www.seapine.com/. |
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