Josh Welch writes: > My first thought > was CVS, it's been around awhile, I've played with it a little bit > for use with config files, it seems well supported and the price is > right. CVS is being replaced by Subversion. It is nice software and the Windows GUI is great. Subversion was designed as a replacement for CVS, not to be the end-all version control system. That said, the software is good and fixes many of the problems people have with CVS. I have used Subversion and am generally happy with it. For normal version control, it works well. You will run into issues with it if you have to do repeated merging between two or more source trees, as it doesn't handle this for you automatically. I have also used Darcs and like it a lot. Darcs has some very cool features, such as distributed repositories (every working copy is a complete repository), being able to select individual patches, apply changes in any order and pull changes from a separate repository via HTTP: http://abridgegame.org/darcs/ Here are a few other interesting looking open source version control systems that I am not familiar with. Vesta was developed by Compaq and open sourced a few years ago: http://www.vestasys.org/ http://aegis.sourceforge.net/ http://www.venge.net/monotone/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ > My boss, however, would like to take a look at some commercial > packages as well. You should look at BitKeeper. It was developed specifically for Linus Torvalds to use while developing the Linux kernel. It has a number of features that the open sources systems don't: http://www.bitkeeper.com/Sales.BitKeeper.html http://www.bitkeeper.com/press/2004-03-17.html http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/05/10/1235236.shtml http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/05/10/1258220.shtml http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32618.htm -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list