On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 15:45 +0530, Pravin Dhayfule wrote:

Hi,

I need to access Visual Source Safe from Ubuntu. Are there any VSS client application for ubuntu (apart from executing that vss exe through wine)?

I need to do this because I am trying to experiment Linux implementation in our Office and I am asked if there's an option to checkout and check in files in VSS through Ubuntu.

Apparently these people offer a Java client:

http://www.dynamsoft.com/Products/SAW_Overview.aspx?gclid=CM_B7OmrqZsCFdFL5Q...

While I've never used VSS, I've heard some very negative things about it, including things like repository corruption, locked checkouts, etc. Apparently even M$ don't eat their own dog food - from what I've heard, they do not use VSS internally.

While I'm sure you've heard all this before, if your organization insists on using commercial SCC products, Perforce is a great multiplatform option at a very reasonable price. Subversion too has extensive commercial support from Collabnet.