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By: piksels » Adobe's listening - joel laumans

piksels » Adobe's listening - joel laumans — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:16:04 +0000

[...] In response to one of my previous posts about bad file versioning. [...]

By: Gunar

Gunar — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:14:33 +0000

Joel -

Hey, interesting ideas. We have some of what you want in Version Cue but are also missing a few pieces.

I’m interested on your take on automatic versioning versus check in/out and if there are other alternatives.

I’d love to talk talk you more about this to see what we can refine in CS4.

Jerry – BTW – the latest version of VC can store file differences rather than the whole file versions, cutting down on space used.

Gunar
Product Manager, Adobe

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:03:27 +0000

Version FINAL2b, eh? Yeah, I have plenty of finals of the final of the final.

But yeah, version control for software development is great. I’ve never used Version Cue as I simply don’t have terabytes of hard drive capacity for all those extra Photoshop files. I say this because I have the feeling I would be much more liberal in saving lots and lots of intermediate versions with Version Cue.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:56:42 +0000

Version control systems have been an absolutely vital tool for software development for decades. As a result, there are plenty of tools out there to manage this kind of problem.

There’s no reason something like Subversion of CVS couldn’t be used for graphic design work.

By: Joel Laumans

Joel Laumans — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:51:38 +0000

@Joshua

You’re right, Version Cue does solve many of the problems which I mentioned (File versions especially) but most people tend to agree that is a decent application which could use some major improvements. (For me it was just the application with the annoying icon in the taskbar taking up my memory…sigh)

To be honest I haven’t touched VersionCue since it came out, but I think I will give it another shot after reading your comment.

By: Joshua McMichael

Joshua McMichael — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:21:35 +0000

They already have a solution (to many of the problems you’ve mention): VersionCue.

The application to access VersionCue servers is called Bridge, and doesn’t require activation (although you can’t get it separate from a CS3 installation – you can install it and use it anywhere).

Check it out.