On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:42:04 +1000, CFAussie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I can see benefits in moving to a Visual Source Safe > development environment, where we use a development server and > 'centralised' development.
What benefits can you see? I've worked with both systems and VSS was a total dog. Corrupted files, pain-in-the-ass locking etc not to mention being Windows-only (so we had to use Samba to share file systems since we deployed to Unix most of the time). The merging stuff (with CVS) is trivial and CVS is very good at it. Of course, you're better off organizing your workloads so that developers aren't trampling all over each other's code anyway (that's a management issue and if you find merging a problem, you'll find exclusive locking even more so, in my opinion). I can't see *any* pros for VSS, based on my experience (and all of the comparative literature out there - that wasn't written by Microsoft, that is!). -- Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
