The code management system acre

Overview

Do you want...

to store the source code and associated files of Dyalog APL projects in a database (repository) running somewhere, typically the cloud, supporting multiple developers?
to store private copies of such a project independently from the main branch in the same repository as an insurance against, say, the loss of your laptop?
to save all versions of APL objects and files of a project locally until it’s time either to back them up into your private part of the repository or merge them into the main branch?
to have reports about what you've changed, what was backed up, what’s causing a conflict, who has changed what and when in the main branch, which of your changes, if any, will cause a conflict on upload?
to upload your changes automatically into the main repository and get support (comparison tools etc.) when there is a conflict?
to restore effortless any old version from the main repository?
to go back to any older version since you’ve checked out your copy?
an insurance against aplcores, “Dyalog has stopped working” and disappearing Dyalog sessions?
to abandon the need of saving (possibly corrupted) workspaces?

If so then acre is for you. But be warned: once you’ve started working with it you won’t want to go back. Ever.

Watch acre in action

PhilLast and KaiJaeger will show acre in action at the 2014 Dyalog conference held from 2014-09-21 to 2014-09-25 in Eastbourne / South England.

How to get it

Acre is a simple and small namespace that contains all the code. It was written by PhilLast on behalf of Carlisle Group in order to support the international development team of FlipDB.

Acre is free even for commercial usage, although the license under which it is provided has some limitations. See AcreLicense for details.

To take full advantage of its power you also need an AcreServer, based on a FlipDB database, running somewhere, typically in the cloud. FlipDB is the flagship of Carlisle Group. Luckily Carlisle have agreed to offer a free version of FlipDB as well. This will be a stripped down version of FlipDB but it is still a fully fledged relational database system written in Dyalog that supports all the functionality required by acre. FlipDB will soon be available for download from here as well.

History of acre

Acre was originally developed to support the international FlipDB development team. From 2008 it was used to manage the FlipDB project. At the same time it was the very first application that actually used FlipDB as repository.

In 2014 Carlisle Group, the owner of acre, decided to provide acre as a free tool to the APL community via the APL Wiki. In September 2014 all the APLTree projects were converted into acre projects. That has not changed the way people can download such projects from the wiki, but it has changed the way developers are expected to cooperate while working on an APLTree project.

See TheAPLTreeProjectAndAcre for details.

Project page

Link to the acre project page

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+Acre is free even for commercial usage, although the license under which it is provided has some limitations. See AcreLicense for details.

To take full advantage of its power you also need an AcreServer, based on a [[FlipDB]] database, running somewhere, typically in the cloud. FlipDB is the flagship of Carlisle Group. Luckily Carlisle have agreed to offer a free version of FlipDB as well. This will be a stripped down version of FlipDB but it is still a fully fledged relational database system written in Dyalog that supports all the functionality required by acre. FlipDB will soon be available for download from here as well.