Quote:I just finished looking through the Perforce documentation
Oh I doubt that. I'd say you finished looking through a peice of Perforce documentation. :)
Quote:I couldn't find anything special that Perforce has over Subversion, except job-tracking (and there is a Subversion add-on for that).
But worst of all, it has copied a lot of flaws from CVS that don't exist in Subversion. Particularly the per-file revision numbers (and the associated command complexity and need for a complex branch/tag mechinisim).
Perforce is a complete package. Subversion is not. I know when VS2005 hits, Perforce will support it, and it will be just as simple and easy to use as what I know. For Subversion I have to rely on someone taking the initiative out there to write tools to work with it, I have to work within their timetable, and I have to accept a lower standard when it comes to things like bugs, and documentation. For Perforce, I know if and when I ever switch development platforms, my Perforce server will almost certanly run out of the box on whatever OS I want to install it on, and whatever IDE I switch to, I know Perforce will have plugins for it. Perforce also has plugins for other tools like Microsoft Office and Photoshop, which to my knowledge Subversion cannot claim.
Quote:Not to mention (as MustEatYemen said), it's propriatary, so if you do end up growing beyond the "free limited-term" evaluation licence, it will cost you up to $800 per user (plus $160/year per user for support and upgrades)!
It's not limited term, you can run it without a license indefinatelty. Obviously if you want to take on a larger project you'll need something that can handle more users, or large amounts of cash. It's only free for 1-2 user projects; for more it costs a lot of money. This is a good thing in my eyes, because I'm not going to have more than 1-2 users on my projects, and I get all the advantages that a big, high quality commercial package give me, without paying the money for it. If I was to tackle a project which involved other people, I would setup a Subversion server and use that, but I'll use Perforce where I can, and if I was running a business and had to choose a SCC package, and had the money to back it, I would go with Perforce.
