Ted Roche wrote:
> On 12/30/06, Paul McNett <p .AT. ulmcnett DO.T com> wrote:
>> 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
True. I was actually thinking about Microsoft Bob when I wrote my "pile
of crap" sentence, but not having ever actually used it, I decided I
couldn't comment on how crappy or not crappy it actually way.
> 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.
Windows ME was certainly better than 98SE, and I used it successfully
for a good year and a half for my music database and gaming machine. ;)
Seriously, boy I tried to get SourceSafe working for me, but that was
back in 2000 or so - I can't remember the specific problems. I think I
was mostly annoyed that it was basically playing the role of client and
server, and relying on Windows networking to do its thing. I remember
thinking it was clunky and slow, and I remember having to run cleanup
utilities often. I remember having to answer the same blasted dialog
question over and over again. Basically, SourceSafe is the only
application I've ever used that got more in my way than helped me solve
a problem.
But perhaps it was just me. That was, after all, when I was still trying
to get source code integration into VFP, which I finally realized was
just a huge waste of time.
But to be fair to SourceSafe, I also found CVS and WinCVS to be horrors.
I was a very happy camper when Subversion came along.
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