Abstract

When designing sofware, programmers usual ~ think in terms of modules that are represented as fimctions and classes. But using existing contguration management systems, programmers have to deal with versions and conrgurations that are o~anized by files and directories. This is inconvenient and error-prone, since there is a gap between handling source code and managing configurations. Wepresent afiameworkfor programming environments that handles versions and configurations directly in terms of the functions and classes in source code. We show that with this framework, cony$guration management issues in sojlware reuse and cooperative programming become easiez We also present a prototype environment that has been developed to verifi our ideas. 1

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