Re: Abi-SourceSafe ?

Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:58:59 -0400


At 1:48 AM -0700 9/9/99, ArcadePreserv Center wrote:
>In the enviroment, where I work we store all documents in a MS
>visual Sourcesafe database.

I'm sorry for you...

SourceSafe has to be one of the worst source control systems
in existence! It doesn't use a database model for storage, NOR a
client/server model for transactions - it's entirely file system
based!!

>I have found that this is the only thing that stops me from
>switching over to Linux on my client PC. To get the company to
>switch to CVS is not an option I am afraid.

If your company is predominately Wintel, that's
understandable since SourceSafe usage from Visual C++ on Windows is
quite nice (as one would expect since that's what they use internally
at Microsoft). However, you'll find that anyone doing x-platform
work (Unix, MacOS, etc.) has switched away from SourceSafe to either
CVS or Perforce.

If you REALLY need a SourceSafe client for Linux, there is a
company that sells one for other flavors of Unix, so I wouldn't be
surprised to see that they've also ported it to Linux.

>I am not sure, but it seams as a quite easy task, if you know how
>sourcesafe works, I dont, and I could not start this project, but I
>am sure others can.

It is NOT a trivial task, and many parts of the
implementation are proprietary to Microsoft (as one would expect).

Leonard

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