Re: What's a good versioning system for Office documents?

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Andrew, thanks for pointing out that Subversion doesn't work on a
file-locking paradigm. I think that would disqualify Subversion, since
locking is one of the client's more-desired features. I'm surprised that SVN
doesn't support check-out and locking, but as you say, it's basic purpose is
text files/source code so maybe it's not all that much of an omission. I
_have_ read many positive reviews of SVN, and it's good at doing the thing
it's meant to do.

Paul (Filby), thanks for the enthusiastic review of VSS - it sounds like a
good alternative, except for the occasional corruption of databases which
seems to occur more often with larger databases. It provides file-locking,
which is a Good Thing! :-)

Lou and Pradeep, thank you for your ideas, links and all the trouble you
went to provide information! I'm afraid that if, as Andrew points out, SVN
doesn't do file-locking, it will be lacking something my client _needs_. I
would have liked very much to proffer SVN as an option, especially with the
detailed solutions you guys have laid out for me - but thank you very much
for your help even if SVN isn't a viable option for us

Paul (Pehrson), thanks again for that really good idea of using XML format;
and Al, thanks for your reply.

Tom Johnson wrote me off-list, too, I hope no one will mind if I thank him
on-list.

Right now, all I can do is summarize the valuable information all of you
have given me and present it to the client. The ball will soon descend in
their court. :-)

Thank you very much, all of you who responded. I hope I haven't missed
anyone out, but I've been operating on adrenalin for a good part of the day,
and no caffeine - not good for accuracy! :-\

Cheers,
Ed.
P.S. Tomorrow's Friday! Whew! Yay! :-)

On 7/13/06, Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com> wrote: