Hi, David. I was waiting to see if someone else would comment before chiming in.
I think SJ will definitely handle the large database (SJ calls it an archive) size much better than VSS. As the primary developer, I may be a bit biased, but I think SJ is inherently more stable that VSS. The client/server communication is a bit slow with SJ. Typically, it's not so slow that you even notice it. At least I don't. But with very large files you'll definitely notice this problem. It's something that's inherent in the architecture since SJ uses SOAP for communication. Your file is taken apart, attached to a bunch of XML documents, and sent using an HTTP protocal and then put back together again. I think that the Windows client for SJ is pretty good, but again, I'm biased. As for binary file differencing--well we don't do that. I'm not even sure how you'd get something like that to work. I don't know if there's an application that does anything like that. If there is, I'd like to know about it. To allow you to view diffs of binary files, an appliation would have to be able to understand and interpret the files. Typically, only the application that created the binary file is going to be able to do something like that. Hope this info is helpful. Good luck. --Rob --- David Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I am looking for a source control app that will handle large numbers of > large binary files. I am part of a team that builds application packages for > deployment in an enterprise. We usually perform setup captures on these > applications and build Windows Installer MSI files from the captured files. We > have about 250 applications in our portfolio and need an organized way to store > these captured files. > > We are currently using MS Visual SourceSafe 6.0 and the database is collapsing > under the 50 GB of versioned files we have stored. > > Here's what I'm looking for: > * An app with a Windows client > > * Something that will do binary file differencing. > > * A robust app that can handle GBs of files. > > > Has anyone used SourceJammer in this way before? Does it work well? > > > Thanks > David > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > _______________________________________________ > SourceJammer-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sourcejammer-users __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ SourceJammer-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sourcejammer-users
