Wayne C. Gramlich

SunPro: engineering a practical program development environment

While each of the efforts described above significantly improves some aspect of the programming environment on Sun workstations, it is obvious that todays technology allows us to go further. Thus, in parallel with these short-term and comparatively easy but effective improvements, we continue to explore technologies which are expected to produce larger gains but which are much more expensive to achieve. These include fine-grained incremental compilation integrated with editing and debugging, as exemplified by Fritzsons DICE system [Frit84], and an effort to better integrate version control, configuration management, release building and bug tracking more tightly with each other and with an underlying database.