eric, perforce supports cross-domain (their perforce to your perforce) integration.
it will allow you to have the third parties work in their own p4 domain (perfoce server) in a branch split from yours. you can manage the process of integrating their branch with the main one based on whatever makes sense in your environment. -saad Eric Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark, how would you rate TFS if your process included allowing third parties to contribute source? Is it completely unworkable, painful, or pretty manageable? Is Subversion just a better choice for that? We're trying to decide between Perforce (which we have, alongside a VSS repository that is Going Away Soon), TFS, and SVN, and that's one of our criteria. On 2/8/06, Marc Brooks wrote: > > > Well, Team Server isn't even released yet, so I wouldn't put much stock > into > > any stability reports on it yet. > > I would have to disagree... I've been using it for 4 months with a > small team, and Microsoft has been dogfooding it for much longer with > HUGE numbers of users and files. It's good. Check the dogfood > statistics http://blogs.msdn.com/johnlawr/archive/2006/01/31/516439.aspx > > > I've used a number of source control tools: > > > > VSS > > CVS > > PVCS > > ClearCase > > > Add Subversion (SVN) and a couple home-grown. I've also played with > the NEW VSS and it's tons better than the V6. ClearCase rocks in the > shell integration, but is very cumbersome and invasive in some places. > It is the second-best "big player" product (I would rate TFS higher). > > For anything with more than a couple developers, or a distributed > force, I would recommend Subversion. It also makes CruiseControl > easier to deal with. > > For small numbers of developers, the NEW VSS is pretty good. > > CVS is not recommended as it requires lots of setup to work on > distributed networks and seems less stable that SVN. > > PVCS, though I've used it since it was Polytron's software (in 1.0 > days) is just plain archaic. > > No comments on Vault, havne't used it... in the one place it would > have made sense (to "remote" a VSS 6 setup), we ended up using RDP for > the off-shore guys to hit "local" machines. > > Marc > > -- > "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the > opposite." �John Kenneth Gailbraith > > Marc C. Brooks > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://musingmarc.blogspot.com > -- Eric Means [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
