Re: Source Code Repository Software.

Post #27,116 by bconnors 2/3/02 9:21:10 PM Reply	Re: Source Code Repository Software. Is "CVS" the same thing as "PVCS" by Merant? I used that at the last employer for all mainframe source code storage. Worked pretty well. At the job before that we used something from MKS to store the source code files - can't remember the name anymore though. Currently we use Visual Source Safe. It was in place but ignored until I started bitching loudly. I mean, the last checked-in source code module was at least 25 versions ago in some cases, and a few modules were checked out by a guy who quit in 2001, and nobody ever cleaned up after him. Only good thing about VSS is that it stores compiled object files.
Post #27,198 by Yendor 2/4/02 11:57:39 AM Reply	Be careful... Some source code control is better than none, but that point is debatable when the source code control you're using is M$ VSS. I has a tendency to eat its database for lunch once in a while. And, of course, once that happens, you have lost all history. So, that begs the question....Is your source really safe with SourceSafe? -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #27,323 by bconnors 2/5/02 12:17:50 AM Reply	I've heard about that before But have no real say in trying to get them to investigate alternatives. It came with the few copies of Visual Studio that they own, so they're using what they already paid for. I've also mentioned to the team leader/contractor about the mulitple articles I've read about VSS going down the black hole, but he just shrugs his shoulders and says "we have backup tapes". This from a place that STILL has the ghost of Nimda/Code Red floating around a few servers as of yesterday. They keep saying that Norton has killed it, but I keep finding .EML and .NWS files on a few of the servers I use daily. I keep current copies of all my projects locally, and bring home files on floppy to keep my CD archive current. BConnors "Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
Post #27,201 by wharris2 2/4/02 12:09:42 PM Reply	Based on RCS? I thought PVCS was originally based on RCS. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #27,312 by static 2/4/02 9:53:41 PM Reply	Doesn't PVCS cost? The thing is, see, that CVS does nearly all we want. So I'm afraid anything that's non-gratis has to be substantially better for it to be considered. I may not have originally made that point clear. Naturally, if we had the time, we'd simply modify CVS ourselves. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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