[CLUE-Tech] CVS for Windows

[ian]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:59:30PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm working on establishing a document control system for a group I'm
> > involved with and it has been suggested that CVS would work. I'm the
> > only Linux person and the rest are windows, do any of you have
> > suggestions to what to use?
> 
> What format is the documentation going to be in? 

Doesn't really matter to most document management systems.  

> Unfortunately, I don't know of any good document control systems.
> CVS might be the closest, but it really isn't meant for documentation.
> It's a tool that programmers generally like and writers (at least
> the ones I've talked to...) generally hate. 

Documentum, LiveLink are some commercial document management systems.  

> What features are you looking for? I mean, are you looking for something
> just to hold & catalog documents or do you need to do diffs on the
> files and be able to "roll back" files? Will multiple authors
> be working on the same document, or will a lot of authors be 
> contributing their own documents? 

The problem you run into using document managment systems is unless they
have a Word add-on then they can't handle mergeing of any kind since DOC 
is a Binary format.  I did some work with Livelink and it pretty much is
a warehouse that holds fully copies of every version.  That is how you 
"rollback".  There isn't any capability to merge or diff effectively in
these kinds of documents.  As for multiple authors... Good luck.
These multiple authors should be coordinating what they are doing.

ian