June 19, 2003 - Devrace Software Company announces a new Athlant™ version, a flexible, universal expert for Borland® Delphi™ and Borland® C++ Builder, which integrates 17 famous source control systems into IDE. Now it offers a new design, built-in communication mechanism (Athlant Server is not necessary anymore) and other additional features and improvements.

Devrace Athlant 3 RC 1 new features and benefits:

  1. Design changes.
  2. A menu in Athlant Manager added (optional).
  3. A filter on project directory structure in Athlant Manager realized.
  4. Internal project file re-reading changed:
    • an error of project dependencies, which cannot be opened in Delphi/C++ Builder, has been fixed
    • data modules will be handled first (in big projects links to datasets and image lists are often lost if not opened in advance)
  5. An ability to save an inverted list of selected items on adding them to source control.
  6. An ability to insert automatical comments into the file header with options handled by the version control systems.
  7. An optional ability to switch automatically to another project in the group on standing to this project module in CodeEditor (If the developer is working with a group of projects, the editor can contain files from different projects. On switching between files in the editor in previous Athlant versions the version control functions were available only for the current project files).
  8. An ability to start Internet Explorer (or a current browser in the system) with bug-tracking page has been added.
  9. Support of communicative functions of Professional Edition has been integrated into expert itself. Starting from
    version 3.0 Athlant Server is not necessary anymore.
  10. An option dialog has been improved.
  11. Now Personal Edition has no Custom user menu. This feature is available only in Professional Edition.

Devrace Athlant 3 RC 1 Fixed Bugs:

  1. AV in the "Show File History" function.
  2. A logical error of automatical addition of files to the source control.
  3. An error when in the editor there was opened a file not included into the project, the "Add" function was available but did not do anything.
  4. AV on changing an active project.
  5. Errors of deactivation of the Àthlant button in the CodeEditor toolbar.
  6. Errors of Athlant deactivation in the CodeEditor popup menu.
  7. An error of work with a project group. Sometimes the connection did not close on changing the project.
  8. Errors of the toolbar size changing on docking.
  9. Errors of file status update during the operation "Get" (for CVS-like systems).
  10. Errors of getting file names for operations. Sometimes being selected in Athlant Manager, the files names doubled and this caused the interruption of the operation.
  11. AV in C++ Builder during execution of operations on the whole project.
  12. Errors of handling .BPK files.
  13. An error of switching between active projects during application debugging.
  14. Problems of file saving before connection to the storage.
  15. Minor changes and improvements.

Athlant is compatible with such 17 well-known version control systems as

  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
  • Rational ClearCase
  • Starbase Versions (StarTeam)
  • MKS Source Integrity
  • Perforce P4 Version Control System
  • IBM VisualAge TeamConnection
  • CS-RCS from Component Software
  • QVCS
  • PVCS
  • CVS
  • Team Coherence
  • CM Synergy (Continuus)
  • AllChange
  • Code Co-op
  • SourceOffSite
  • Seapine Surround SCM
  • CA Harvest

Some of these systems do not have tools for integration with Borland Delphi and Borland C++ Builder, therefore Athlant is the only instrument enabling to work with such systems directly from Borland environments. It is compatible with Delphi 5-7 and C++ Builder 5-6 with Professional and Enterprise editions. Integrating into main IDE menu, main IDE toolbar, Code Editor, Form Designer and Project Manager Athlant features equally support various version control systems. Great experience of Devrace in the area of integration with Borland® Delphi™ and Borland® C++ Builder IDE helps to make Athlant really useful and convenient.

Athlant Professional

Devrace™ Athlant™ Professional includes a built-in communication mechanism. Using Athlant Professional developers can see an actual status of any file in Athlant Manager if this file is being operated on by another user in the network. Besides they can use a built-in messaging system, which allows sending messages to other developers. Athlant Professional can be easily extended by functions of a specific source control system as it enables users to add menu items to Athlant. These items can run command-line tools of a certain source control system. It allows users to call any additional source control functions, which are not included into the SCC standard.

Athlant Personal

Devrace™ Athlant™ Personal includes all general functions for source control and it is very convenient for developers, who are working alone. If programmers are working in a group, but they do not need the internal messaging system and automatic synchronization of file states, Athlant Personal can be a good choice. This Athlant edition is smaller and cheaper.

Athlant ModelMaker

Devrace™ Athlant™ ModelMaker Edition (Athlant MM) is a freeware tool for ModelMaker based on Athlant for Delphi and C++ Builder. Athlant MM includes all general functions for version control: you will be able to save and control versions of your models, and be sure that old versions are not lost or other designers do not overwrite each other's changes. It allows you to connect to a storage, add and remove models to/from a storage, check models in and out, get the latest model version, etc.

Devrace™ Athlant™ brings Borland® Delphi™ and Borland® C++ Builder developers to a new level of version control technologies.

Devrace Athlant features and benefits:

  • Deep and high-quality integration into IDE - Athlant allows developers to call all source control functions from main IDE menu, main IDE toolbar, context menu and toolbar of Code Editor, context menu of Form Designer and also from menu and toolbar of Athlant Manager.
  • Support of a lot of various version control systems - Using SCC API for getting access to version control systems, Athlant supports a great number of famous source control systems including Microsoft SourceSafe, Rational ClearCase, CVS, Perforce P4, and many others. Athlant also exceeds the bounds of SCC API, it enables users to add functions into Athlant menu with commands of specific source control systems.
  • Real-time control of files - Athlant Professional allows developers to get to know the actual status of a controlled file practically at the moment when the file status changes.
  • Convenient group development - Using Atlant Messaging system developers can communicate with each to other in the local network.

Pricing and Availability

Devrace™ Athlant™ is immediately available for purchase: Athlant Professional costs 112 Euro (1 copy), 100 Euro (2-3 copies), 90 Euro (4-6), 756 Euro (unlimited copies) and Athlant Personal costs 63.95 Euro (1 copy), 58.85 Euro (2-3 copies), 51.95 Euro (4-6 copies), 429.75 Euro (unlimited copies). For more information, visit http://www.devrace.com/shop/. Full functional trial version is available for download from http://www.athlant.com/

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