TABLE OF CONTENTS Software Configuration Management or Source Code Management is mainly used by companies that develop software. It is also common at game producers and web agencies that have a strong focus on back-end programming and scripting complex interfaces. More and more, features for the management of non-program code files are popping up in SCM tools. On the other hand, many DAM tools (see next section) can also manage program code.
To give a brief overview, a comparison of the most important features of all the SCM tools mentioned in this section is given in Table A1.8.
| CVS | Subversion | Perforce | Rational ClearCase | BitKeeper | VSS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalability | +++ | +++ | +++ | ++++ | ++++ | ? |
| Speed | +++ | ++++ | +++++ | ++++ | ++++ | ? |
| Security | ++++ | +++++ | ++++ | ++ | ? | |
| Stability | +++++ | +++ | ++++ | ? | ||
| Handling of binary data | + | ++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | + |
| +++++, Perfect; ++++, outstanding; +++, good; ++, sufficient; +, some; ?, totally insufficient. |
CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is the SCM all others are measured against. It is a very mature, stable, and scalable software. Due to its broad distribution, there are integrations available for almost every software development tool and for various other software packages.
As in most...
