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NAME

       shape stdrul - shapeTools RMS general version selection rules

DESCRIPTION

       The  shape release management system requires a set of standard version selection rules to be accessible project wide. These are defined in
       the stdrules file, which is to be included into the Shapefiles of any part of the system controlled by the  shapeTools  release	management
       system.	Version  selection  rules  drive  the  binding	of component names in the Shapefile to specific versions during a build or release
       process (or better: any process performed by invocation of shape(1) ). Some functions of shape_RMS allow definition of the version  binding
       rule being active by defining the VERSIONS macro on the command line. This may be set to any of the rule names listed below.

       If  you want to introduce new version selection rules for project wide use, you may add them to the stdrules file. You should be very care-
       ful, when altering this file. Do not remove any of the rules defined in the original version of stdrules (as it comes from  the	shapeTools
       distribution  tape)  because  these are essential for the release management system. When altering one of the original selection rules, you
       should be very concious of what you are doing, as you may affect the operationality of shape RMS. For a description of the syntax  of  rule
       definitions, see the shape(1) manual.

       The standard version selection rules are:

       most_recent
		 For each component select a busy version if available, the most recent saved version otherwise.

       last_proposed
		 Use the last proposed version of each component. This rule fails, if no proposed version is available

       last_released
		 Select versions from the last generated release.

       last_prereleased
		 Select versions from the last generated prerelease.

       recent_release
		 Select versions included in the last release or prerelease, whichever is newer.

       from_release
		 Select  versions from a specific release or prerelease.  When using this rule the value of the macro RELEASENAME has to be set to
		 the name of the desired (pre)release.

       extern	 Always select a busy version (a regular UNIX file). This rule should be applied to all extern components that are not under  con-
		 trol of the shapeTools version control system.

FILES

       $(SHAPELIBPATH)/stdrules

SEE ALSO

       shape_RMS(1), shape(1)

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