Products I would strongly recommend people avoiding because they are rubbish:
MS Visual Source Safe
JBuilder, ok I haven't used the latest version. But I strongly suspect it is rubbish with added refactoring tools. [It is].
Novell client for windows networks
WinCVS? is pretty bad too, but not on the same level as say, Source Safe.
I work with people that really like JBuilder and Source Safe. (I haven't tried enough Java IDEs and source code control systems to be objective. Personally I like eclipse, and am amenable to opensource products.) Why are JBuilder and Source Safe "rubbish"? What am I missing?
Heh, perhaps I should change change that to "products I find are particularly poor". But as this is a page about me I was maybe expressing my feelings a little too openly.
Sourcesafe has failed to put in files and yet reported success via the gui. (I managed to finally catch this happening in a repeatable case)
I have to run that admintool to fix sourcesafe which takes forever and requires all clients disconnecting. it is recommended u run this every week. haha.
Sourcesafe doesn't monitor directories so adding new files to a project means that new files can be left out of version control. something you may not discover till you deploy to testing servers.
Removing a file from SourceSafe? doesn't update the view
If you get a "File not found" or similar when trying to check in a file, then try doing it from the SourceSafe? pane (left) rather than the file system pane (right). Why do I need to do this?
Get the message "Invalid DOS Path"? - What does that mean other than sourcesafe is rubbish? It certainly doesn't have anything to do with invalid DOS paths.
Checking out previous non-labeled versioned of files from sourcesafe seems non-trivial.
Some things about JBuilder quickly:
Very slow gui in Swing.
Major lack of automatic micro-recompilation on save. This I find particularly annoying as it makes development so slow.
Editing/refactoring tools lagging behind other IDEs.
No catch-up and Release style version control integrated with IDE.
Disclaimer: This was true of the last version I used, I haven't used the latest. But I doubt they have thrown away the Swing GUI and implemented proper version control in one release.
MatthewCooke