On 12/30/06, Paul McNett <p /AT/ ulmcnett .DOT com> wrote:
>
> Ted, I know you wrote the book on SourceSafe (thank you, it helped me
> out a great deal back in the day), but can you really honestly recommend
> it to people to use for their important work, given that superior, free,
> and open source solutions exist, namely Subversion?
>
Paul: I use and endorse subversion.
However, I thought that Virgil's situation won't allow him to run
subversion. Excuse my ignorance.
> SourceSafe just simply has to be the biggest pile of crap to ever come
> out of Redmond.
Ow! Much too harsh! There was Visual J, WebDB, Microsoft Bob. I worked
successfully with VSS in a number of enterprises for over a decade.
It's a file server - workstation infrastructure, file-based database,
COM automation, command-line tool. When two guys in Raleigh wrote it
25 years ago, it was pretty cool. When Microsoft bought it and let it
slowly fade, it certainly didn't keep up with the industry (Hmm...
sound familiar?) But "biggest pile of crap to ever come out of
Redmond?" Windows ME, bud.
> There's a single-user mode that requires no server. But the server can
> run on OS X and Windows (just not ME or 98) just fine. There are even
> binary installers:
I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction. Virgil, you ought to
check that out.
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