On Dec 31, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
> 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. ;)
Well, there you are. One man's steaming pile of crap is another's
manure for the garden, I guess.
> 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.
It was a pita to get set up correctly, and the Fox Team had to shoe-
horn the way VSS did business into the way VFP projects worked. That
they made it happen at all is a tribute to some very clever people.
Sadly, they were never able to document the procedures you needed to
follow to make it all work well. I've worked on a couple of teams
that got it working, local and remote (yay, SourceOffSite!) but it
was never a trivial thing, and the team would have to occasionally as
me to don my wizard hat and make things right again. That was one of
the major motivations for Essential Sourcesafe and the follow-on
white paper [1]
> 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.
All SCC was a nightmare at one time. I'm still maintaining a couple
of Twikis that use RCS as a backend. Ugly, but effective.
[1] http://www.tedroche.com/Present/2005/
UsingSourceSafetoMaintainaSourceSafeDatabase.pdf
Ted Roche
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