RE: Anyone running CS-RCS or CS-CVS?

[Arthur Barrett]

No previous experience with CS-CVS, but if you are after a CVS Windows
based (GPL - free) solution I can point you to some helpful sites.

May I ask what features it has over CVS or CVSNT (which are both free /
GPL and both have commercial support options)?  
http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=Commercial_Support

I looked on componentsoftware's web site but couldn't work out what the
advantage of CS-CVS was (but that's probably just me).

Since CS-CVS seems fairly windows oriented, here are a few Windows
related CVS links which may help you.

For "Windows Integration" most people use TortoiseCVS (which is also
free) and includes the CVSNT client:
http://www.tortoisecvs.org

For "Merge" on windows most people use WinMerge (also free - and
integrates with TortoiseCVS):
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

CVS and CVSNT have basic "history" commands, CVSNT 2.5.02 has a SQL
backend Audit (currently in beta - production in a few days/weeks) but
you can implement that through server side triggers/scripts on either
CVSNT or CVS.

For web based browsing of the repository there are lots of free choices,
ViewCVS and CVSWEB are probably the most common.  

For using version control in a commercial environment I recommend
integrating with a defect tracking tool like Bugzilla and maybe even
build management too (so when you commit a change to the source it
attempts to compile it in a "standard environment").  CVSNT facilitates
integration with defect tracking with the -b and -B (bug number)
switches, these also let you group changes into "changsets" which I find
very handy.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett


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Subject: Anyone running CS-RCS or CS-CVS?


My company is considering adoption of CS-RCS Pro and CS-CVS from
http://www.componentsoftware.com.

Does anyone have any experience with these systems to share?

-e.


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