Martin

We are not building a code management tool here at all, we are building a front end to one (probably ClearCase or Harvest) we currently make use of VSS only because it came with VFP when it was still part of Visual Studio and haven't bothered to change because it was able to satisfy our needs... this was fine when the team was only 5-6 people; not so any longer.

Now that the team has grown to 25 (or so) in the past 3 years our staying with VSS isn't because we love it, its simply because we haven't had the time to get off it in any way that will actually add value over the time spent doing it.

Harvest or ClearCase are both vastly superior tools, and as you quite rightly point out there are a host of Open Source tools out there that we could use. Though being a large corporate (by Australian Standards) we can't just go out and use whatever we can get our hands on - in fact many of us can't even install software onto our own workstations ;-)

So we decided that we needed a solution that would allow us to move off VSS onto something (anything) better and would still integrate with the VFP IDE. Fox is great in that we can write out own front-ends to pretty much anything that the IDE can do so with that thought in mind we decided it was time the project manager got a much needed enhancement. The goal is to allow each developer in the team to continue to work within VFP but have the code management (done by the SCM toom) handled automagically - and allow the testing and packaging teams to build and test the regular releases of the system without having to spend many ours copying classes from one developer's VCX to the reference VCX and so on...

We do not stay on VSS by choice and very soon (with luck) we will be in a position to embrace the future and get onto something truly useful.

At least that is the plan... I hope it works.