Re: Version control

I have used Sourcesafe and PVCS. Neither are too
complicated, but Sourcesafe may be too expensive unless
you qualify for the upgrade price of about $250.00. I
don't know what PVCS costs these days.

I found a review of source control stuff at
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VersionControl that you might check
out.

If the project involves just two or three programmers with
just one guy in charge of the project, you might try
something even simpler like Beyond Compare from
www.scootersoftware.com. I abandoned Sourcesafe in favor
of this nice file compare/update utility, which is
simpler, has some version control features, and has the
best file compare algorithm I've seen. This coupled with
regular archiving of the code works pretty well for simple
stuff. It's main drawback is that it doesn't do file
security/checkout, which for me was a headache anyway.

Regards,
Glenn

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:51:50 -0700
  alanf2_at_earthlink.net wrote:
>Has anyone used "version control" software?
>
>The application I am now working on
>will evolve over time for performance and
>functionality improvement, bug fixes, and
>customization. I will need to keep track of
>version differences in order to diagnose
>bugs and propagate bug fixes and new
>functionality among the various flavors.
>Of crucial importance is responding
>quickly to end-user bug reports on past
>versions, which requires retrieval of past
>version source and preferrably the
>extraction of all changes between it and
>the latest version.
>
>The most commonly seen version control
>packages appear to be either in the
>multi-thousand-$ price bracket, which is too
>expensive, or a pain to deal with, especially
>without Unix or Linux. CVS (Concurrent
>Version System) is the prime example of
>the latter: designed for large multi-site
>team projects, and no small project in itself
>to install and use. In my case, a single-user
>system without fancy file checkout locks and
>client-server repository access will do.
>
>Has anyone found such a thing (at a modest
>price)? Are they in general compatible with
>Forth? It would be nice to be able to use it
>with text documents, schematics, etc; are
>they generalized enough for this?
>
>
>Gratefully,
>
>Alan Furman
>
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