Hi all, I am about to embark on a review of source safe applications to
see if there is anything better than Visual Source Safe commonly being
used. If you are using such an application, could you please shoot me a
quick email letting me know, which application you are using, your
comments about the app (pros - cons etc), and if you would prefer to be
using another app (and why).
CVS. It is free, it has free clients for Windows, Mac, Unix, it has both command-line and GUI interfaces (so it's easy to use while still being scriptable). It allows parallel development (multiple developers working on the same file) and has really good intelligent merging features. It stores files in a readable format so you've got near-zero chance of file corruption (unlike VSS which is notorious for file corruption!).
CVS also has some great free add-ons like Bonsai which is a web-based reporting tool (so you can get reports of who checked in what changes very easily, amongst other things). Then there's stuff like Tinderbox which can interact with CVS to create 'builds' automatically on multiple systems and manage build status reports based on automated test suites etc.
In case you hadn't guessed, Macromedia's IT department - including the web team - uses CVS for all of their projects (by contrast, the product teams use Perforce which is a commercial product: my initial experiences of Perforce have been poor but the product teams like it so there must be more to it than I've seen).
Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/
"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood
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