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Hello List,
I received exactly three responses on this topic.
Renee L. LaPlume was the first one to respond.
As a lone tech writer, it was recommended I stick with MKS Source Integrity
as it does everything I need it to do, with little or no overhead. Renee
also sent along a copy of the presentation on configuration management
(version control and bug tracking) at an STC Management SIG
meeting. It includes a list of references which I found helpful for
additional information.
The third was a request for a summary on the topic.
I have since tested RS-CVS and found it not as comprehensive as MKS.
Although if I did not already own a license for MKS, I would be using it.
The two programs are both designed for source code, not documents, and thus
treat anything not a text file as a binary.
For those of you out there playing with RS-CVS, or CVS specifically: a free
CVS book online and is available at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/.
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Rebecca Downey
Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. Networks Division
Technical Writer
Email: rdowney -at- matrox -dot- com
