+1 vote. I've had nothing but pain from VSS.
CVS has been a much better tool in my experience and I've used it in a number of different development environments both with developers working together in the same pod and with developers scattered around the world. I've also used it with a centralized development server and I can tell you for nothing that doing that on VSS is likely to eventually get someone so mad that they'll go postal (If they're anything like the people I worked with that is). I've recently moved to SubVersion for my own stuff and I prefer it to CVS on the whole, but I haven't had a chance to use it 'in anger' where there is more than just me dealing with the repository. Spike -------------------------------------------- Stephen Milligan Code poet for hire http://www.spike.org.uk Do you cfeclipse? http://cfeclipse.tigris.org >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Sean Corfield >Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:24 PM >To: CFAussie Mailing List >Subject: [cfaussie] Re: CVS vs. VSS > >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/ --- 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/
