Remote Code Collaboration

[alocurto]

I am going to be developing in a group of 2-3 programmers. Right now I am looking for software that will allow for souce code storage remotely and securely. I use visual source safe internally but I do not want to open that up over the web. I have found some solutions that offer chat, bug tracking, messaging, etc. That would be great to have if anyone can strongly recommend one I would appreciate it.

 

[jonmullen]

umm whats wrong with CVS

 

[alocurto]

I am looking into options. I have never heard of CVS. I am reading up on it now. Does this integrate with Visual Studio?

 

[alocurto]

Anyone else?

 

[xcript]

I've heard good things about Subversion.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: jonmullen
umm whats wrong with CVS

Yup. Using WinCVS as the client. I don't know how to set up the CVS server but that's been taken care of.

 

[kamper]

CVS isn't the easiest thing in the world to use for beginners but it's more or less a standard for distributed programming efforts. Also, I've never seen a cvs server on windows, can you do that? At any rate, the usual setup would be on *nix so that might be a consideration. I have also used WinCVS and it's pretty good. If it were me, I'd be looking at subversion (just out of interest). If I remember correctly, it's the unofficial successor to cvs but isn't functionally complete yet. Maybe someone who has used it could comment?

 

[Bulldog13]

http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/

I have no personal experience with it, but I find his commentary on code writing to be pretty good.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Bulldog13
http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/

I have no personal experience with it, but I find his commentary on code writing to be pretty good.

That looks like it's just a bug tracker. I didn't see anything about a source code repository.

 

[arcain]

CVS.. though I have no clue how to host a repository on a Windows machine. Only seen it hosted on Unix type machines. But I recommend Tortoise CVS as a Windows client. It doesn't integrate with Visual Studio (I don't think so, at least), but it integrates with Explorer.

http://www.tortoisecvs.org/

 

[alocurto]

I found sourceoffsite that seems good. Costs over a grand., that is a problem.

I appreciate the feedback.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: arcain
CVS.. though I have no clue how to host a repository on a Windows machine. Only seen it hosted on Unix type machines. But I recommend Tortoise CVS as a Windows client. It doesn't integrate with Visual Studio (I don't think so, at least), but it integrates with Explorer.

http://www.tortoisecvs.org/

You are both tight. The CVS server runs on a Unix machine.