The code management system acre

Overview

Do you want...

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 running somewhere, typically in the cloud. Acre Server is owned by Carlisle Group. Luckily Carlisle have agreed to offer a free version of the Acre Server as well. It is a fully fledged relational database management system written in Dyalog that supports all the functionality required by acre. Acre Server is available for download from its home page.

History of acre

Acre was originally developed to support the international FlipDB development team. From 2008 it was used to manage the FlipDB project.

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

-- KaiJaeger 2014-06-05 20:48:23


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