LOL - I wish... Unfortuneately comercial realities mean that is not going to happen...
We dev some .Net stuff aswell as CF - so Source Safe is a necessary evil... and tbh for what we want it works absolutely fine (apart from the integration with DW - which as everything else integrates fine - must be the fault of DW) Also for what this guy does (he's a junior developer doing lots of small changes to mainly static sites) DW is a timesaving tool... On 9/11/06, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agreed, DW is useless, but I think the bigger issue is that you're using > SourceSafe. Get rid of the demon and go to SVN. (Then just tell that one > guy that DW is no longer supported due to it's non integration with SVN > and > make him use CFE :-P ) > > Russ > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Lancelot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:53 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Holy crap I like CFEclipse! > > > > > > Turn off the design view and you've got a serious code editor. > > > > > > I tend to disagree, in my opinion the real added value in DW are > certain > > > visual tools, if you don't use them, you are better served by > CFEclipse > > or > > > a > > > traditional code editor, faster and with a smaller footprint, like > > > EditPlus, > > > UltraEdit, or even good old Homesite. > > > > > > Completely agree - only time I use DW is for rapid edits of static HTML > > (laying out html emails etc). > > > > We have guy's on the team here who use DW for everything - and this has > > exposed a quite annoying """feature""" - namely its broken SourceSafe > > integration. > > > > If a file is checked out to another user, and you try editing it within > > DW, > > DW will remove the write protection on the file, but will not check it > > out. > > > > THIS IS WRONG! > > > > No other source control product that I have ever used works in this > way... > > > > The write protection and the check out status go hand in hand - and you > > should not be able to edit a file which is not checked out. > > > > What's even worse, is that if you then try and save the file, DW will go > > and > > checkout the file over your changed file, and irrecoverably lose all > your > > changes. > > > > In addition, if you try and do a search and replace across multiple > files, > > some of which have been checked out, edited and saved, and some of which > > are > > still checked in, DW will prompt you to ask if you want to check out > > un-checked out files. If you click yes, not only will DW check out the > > un-checked out files, but also all the ones already checked out and > > changed > > - losing all work since you last checked your files in!!!! > > > > My colleague has lost a sum total of at least 12 hours work due to DW's > > sourcesafe bugs. I meanwhile use CF Eclipse with the free VSS Explorer > > eclipse plug in - and have never had any (VSS related) problems... > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252805 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
