Re: Comercial Users of Subversion

On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:20 PM, SI COM wrote:

> All:
>
> I know a lot of folks have asked this before, but I am going to do
> it again.
>
> I am part of the SCM team that is evaluating a replacement for VSS
> and Subversion is one of the choices at this point. So here are the
> questions that I have:
>
> 1) We are a financial services company with almost all groups
> (other than software development) using a SCM tool. Will Subversion
> be good for non-technical users esp. with not a lot of UI tools
> available?

There are many GUI tools available for almost any platform and IDE.
It also offers autoversioning to allow you to version files with no
source control client at all.

> 2) We have invested a lot in creating push button builds ( any user
> can create a build from a web page) so how good are the APIs that
> Subversion provides?

The API is very good. Using the Python bindings, for example, you
can tie into any part of the Subversion infrastructure, from directly
opening the Subversion repository, to remote client commands. The
API is also the reason why there are so many Subversion GUI clients,
they all make use of the C Subversion API.

> 3) Is there a list of companies in Financial Services sector that
> are using it? can someone provide that to me?

No list that I'm aware of, but I've trained and helped the World Bank
in their transition to Subversion, if that counts as a financial
services company :)

Regards,
Blair

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Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
<blair@orcaware.com>
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