Re: Subversion for Powerbuilder 5.0

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:09, Yin Ling Cheung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a staff of a software-house company.
> Currently, we're searching for suitable version control system for Windows platform.
>
> I would be grateful if you could answer me the following for evaluation use:
> 1. Does Subversion support version control for Powerbuilder 5.0.4?
> If yes, is it at PBL (file) level or object level?

I've never heard of Powerbuilder, or any Subversion project to support
it. So I guess the answer is "no".

> 2. Does it support .Net?

Yes, see the AnkhSVN project: http://ankhsvn.tigris.org

> 3. Is the version comparison component for text files only?

Yes. We have no mechanism for comparing binary files.

> 4. The svn commands are powerful, is there any GUI having the same functionality as the command-line interface?

There are a number of GUIs for SVN, all separate projects. TortoiseSVN
(http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org) is the most popular, and probably
"closest" to the commandline client in functionality. I don't know of
any GUI that has the exact same functionality as the commandline. See
the 'links' page on the SVN website for links to GUI projects:
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_links.html

> Does the web interface have the same functionality?

Web interfaces are browsing only, not changing data. So they can't be
compared to the commandline client. The same 'links' page lists web
interfaces such as ViewCVS and WebSVN.

> 5. How's the locking? Both copy-modify-merge and lock-modify-unlock are supported?

No locking in svn 1.0.x. It's a planned feature for svn 1.1, but that
won't be out for many months.

> 6. What kinds of report are supported? Is there any GUI reporting tools?

There are no reporting tools that I'm aware of, certainly none built
in. The "trac" system claims to have some reporting abilities, which is
a big system mentioned on the links page.

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Received on Wed Apr 14 19:28:59 2004