>That's a fair question, and perhaps that is where I should start. I would like to implement a better source control system than the manual method we are currently using. I have spent a fair amount of time working with subversion, and while it can be made to work, it is fairly tricky to do conversion in and out of binary files.
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As Craig wrote, look at Christof's article - I have seen Christof give a demo

The in and out part of binary stuff (like classlibs) is handled via conversion to and from xml.

You have to do a manual operation (convert the files to xml) before you can check them in