[thelist] CVS questions

[Richard Bennett]

Hi,
We have a software project which includes a web front-end.
Now we will be licensing the code too a partner, and they want to run it
under a different name.
So the product-name has to be changed in all the source-code, the docs, the
web-interface etc.

Is there a way in CVS to develop the two versions consecutively?

I know I can do branching, but if the name is in each file somewhere, that
won't work, as changes would have to be applied in both branches.
I'd want some kind of global variable (like the keywords), or someway to
include code in a file (like SSI).

Any ideas?
Or should we consider another code-management system? (CVS is not setup yet
on this project)

Thanks,

Richard.