For a simple project Visual SourceSafe should be fine and easy to use if your tools already integrate. It's easy to get going and setup. CVS is the way to go for something that is free and will scale up to bigger projects, but I don't find it as easy to use as VSS. I really like Perforce but it isn't free.
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Gudanov - Jan 31, 2006 4:49:03 am PST #6920 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
TomW - Jan 31, 2006 5:17:35 am PST #6921 of 10003
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
I also like Perforce. We switched from Visual Source Safe to Perforce a while back and it was a massive improvement. But, not free.
Subversion is another free option. I think it has more of a learning curve than CVS, but it has a more up to date feature set.
If "free" and "good enough" are your criteria, then CVS will probably do. If "good enough" isn't good enough, then check out Subversion. If "not confusing to bosses" is one of your criteria, then I got nothing.
There are "Pragmatic Version Control Using..." books for both CVS and Subversion that give a decent overview.
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2006 9:44:15 am PST #6922 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
After talking with my boss, we decided to use TortoiseCVS, just to be consistent with our client.
Right now, I'm reading Open Source Development with CVS - 3rd Edition. It's fun, as I like learning new stuff (and I especially like getting paid to learn new stuff).
Gudanov - Jan 31, 2006 10:01:28 am PST #6923 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Learning new stuff is cool.
Liese S. - Jan 31, 2006 4:36:55 pm PST #6924 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It is, isn't it?
Wish I'd noticed this conversation before I broke down and bought VSS. But it was still cheap, because I got it from the super duper donated tech for nonprofits place that makes me happy. Although I've now used up my quota of Microsoft products for another year, what with having to buy new operating systems for all the donated laptops I got. Not complaining, though! Free laptops! Cheap software! Whoo!
But yeah, I like learning new stuff.
Gudanov - Jan 31, 2006 6:08:40 pm PST #6925 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
VSS really isn't all bad, it just doesn't scale up to big projects very well since it lacks a lot of features and its database isn't very robust. For smaller projects it works fine and has the advantage of simplicity.
Liese S. - Jan 31, 2006 7:29:22 pm PST #6926 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That's fine for me, then, because I only need it for small projects. Simplicity is a good thing.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2006 1:05:31 pm PST #6927 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NoiseDesign - Feb 01, 2006 1:19:06 pm PST #6928 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I had the Logitech Harmony 880, which is their flagship, but my Plasma TV didn't like to play well with it so I ended up returning it. The fault was with my TV though, not the remote. My TV tends to be inconsistent with how long it takes to respond to the first remote input after you turn it on. This wreaks havoc with all of the macro based programming that these remotes depend upon. It's what I get for buying an odd brand Plasma TV.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2006 1:21:04 pm PST #6929 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. I read this review of the 880, and the idea of firing everything up at once--turning on the TV, making sure it's on TiVo input and goosing the TiVo, or switching stuff around for the DVD player? LOVE.
A few years ago I was in love with something Sony put out, but technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, as it is wont to do.