RE: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-10 Thread Mike Feimster
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:36 PM To: Donald M Rinderknecht; Flato, Gillian Cc: Framers List Subject: Re: Source Control for Frame At 1:53 PM -0600 12/9/08, Donald M Rinderknecht wrote: Hi Gillian, Other than the diff report (which I

RE: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-10 Thread FeiMin_Lorente
] Subject RE: Source Control for Frame Even though the files are binary and you can't do diffs, the other benefits of a good version control system are well worth it. - You can always go back to a previous version, whether it's the version from yesterday or last quarter's release. - Archiving

RE: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-10 Thread Mary Anthony
: Framers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Source Control for Frame I agree with Mike. We use CVS with our FrameMaker files. Although it is a bit annoying that FrameMaker thinks it's changed when it often hasn't, and CVS can't tell the difference, the source control system is still extremely

RE: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Warren
Mike Feimster wrote: Even though the files are binary and you can't do diffs, the other benefits of a good version control system are well worth it. - If you move to structured Frame and XML, you can do diffs as well as branching and merging. Ack! Don't do that. The line-based diff

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-09 Thread Donald M Rinderknecht
Hi Gillian, Other than the diff report (which I assume provides more details than just a time/date stamp) is SVN useful? I've been wanting some centralized document management for our FrameMaker (and other) files for a long time. We have several folks that author materials, sometimes in

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:53:38 -0600, Donald M Rinderknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks have mentioned going to MIF files or XML. Wouldn't those options add steps to the workflow? I assume they (MIF or XML) would affect the workflow in a similar fashion. Also, going to XML would require

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-09 Thread quills
At 1:53 PM -0600 12/9/08, Donald M Rinderknecht wrote: Hi Gillian, Other than the diff report (which I assume provides more details than just a time/date stamp) is SVN useful? I've been wanting some centralized document management for our FrameMaker (and other) files for a long time. We have

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Prentice
I'm not aware of any way to use source control for binary files (FM or otherwise) other than just being able to know if the file has changed (even that may not really be very accurate). And there's no way to do a useful diff of two FM files other than using the Compare utility in FM. This is

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread John Posada
When I was at EMC, we used Documentum for source control and it handled binaries just fine. You may, however, find the price tag a bit steep. Is there any source control out there that works really well with Frame? We have subversion here, but that can only read ASCII files. It stores -- John

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi John... By handle binaries .. what did it actually do? Did it do a binary diff on the files and only store the changes or did it store each update as a whole blob? And did it provide you with the actual diffs of the content without running FM? ...scott John Posada wrote: When I was at

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Have you looked at Sourcerer, from Advantica, Inc?   Adobe has a Success Story at www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/pdfs/advantica_ss.pdf. --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Scott Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Scott Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Source Control for Frame To: John Posada

RE: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread O'Laoghaire Micheal
Prentice Cc: Framers List Subject: Re: Source Control for Frame When I was at EMC, we used Documentum for source control and it handled binaries just fine. You may, however, find the price tag a bit steep. Is there any source control out there that works really well with Frame? We have subversion

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Prentice
looked at Sourcerer, from Advantica, Inc? Adobe has a Success Story at www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/pdfs/advantica_ss.pdf http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/pdfs/advantica_ss.pdf. --- On *Mon, 12/8/08, Scott Prentice *wrote: From: Scott Prentice Subject: Re: Source