Honestly the only benefit I currently see is getting a pro-VSS/ASP developer off my back :)
I guess the main thing is being able to code your changes and test with everyone elses changes at the same time. It also allows you to work in an environment where there might be other components that are critical that are not in source control... However, I guess most of this can be resolved by automatically compiling builds to the development/qa server. What are your main methods in ensuring that everyone is editing the same module version? Do you checkout/export nightly builds of your code to a development server? Darryl -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Corfield Posted At: Friday, 23 July 2004 3:24 PM Posted To: CFAussie Conversation: [cfaussie] Re: CVS vs. VSS 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/
