Our company tried using SourceSafe for a while, but gave up on it
after it kept corrupting files, or locking them up and not allowing
anyone to access them, without an admin's intervention. Also, we
couldn't find a decent Mac client for it either.
We switched to Subversion after that, and have been using it since.
It's free, and is pretty easy to setup. We really haven't had any
problems with it either, and the ones we have had were user related.
I'd definitely recommend the SVN route.
- Josh
On Apr 21, 2006, at 8:32 AM, JesterXL wrote:
Subversion.
http://subversion.tigris.org/
A Windows client:
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
You can install yourself on your own server, or hosted. I use
these guys:
http://avlux.net/subversion/host.php
You will not be able to do a compare for binary files beyond "Is
this an
exact match or not?". That's it. Since Word, Excel, FLA, ect. are
binary,
there is no such thing.
However, ASCII files (text ones), like TXT, AS, MXML, HTML, CSS and
the rest
WILL do comparisons. You can track changes all types of files, and
see who
checked what in. Newer versions of Subversion also have the
ability to lock
a file so you cannot check something in (Visual Source Safe had
this by
default, but many people didn't like it).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren R. Elks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 10:18 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.
Hi:
We are slowing building our eLearning group in our company. We are
finding that we really need a system like SourceSafe.
The question is, does anyone know if SourceSafe (or some other system
handles):
FLA, SWF files
BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files
WAV files
DOC files
PDF files
FM files (Framemaker) files
PSD files
Corel files
We are looking for one system running on a server that would be
able to
house all of these file types (maybe more) and provide versioning,
check
in / check out, etc.
Also, it would be nice if the system could do comparisons. (Although
this may be asking for too much). For example, it could compare 2
docs
and tell what the differences are. However, this is a "nicety", NOT a
requirement.
I appreciate any advice.
Sincerely,
Loren Elks
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