More of a source control question

[LV_Pro]

Anyone have a good idea of how to put commonly used libraries into source control. Specifically, I haven't yet "converted" all of my associates at my current gig into using the OpenG "stuff", so they haven't downloaded and installed it. We work on a bunch of laptops in various labs, as well as our personal development workstations. We have finally implemented a software source control system, Visual Source Safe, which allows us to access the latest working version from these labs, but some stuff, like individual user.lib and the OpenG libraries are on them. I'm using them for some critical parts, found that some of the ini file tools are like similar tools I had written, but on steriods, and need them. I don't want to try and download from the 'net and maintain the OpenG libs on all of these machines, would rather have it in our central repository, but not sure how best to do that, having only downloaded the package handler to individual machines in the past. Some of the machine (most?) don't have 'net access either. There is probably a straight forward path, but I've been under the gun on my latest project and my aging brain has overheated and shutdown a couple of times this week!

Thanks,

[Ben]

Putnam,

This question is probably better suited for the JKI web-site since some of those issues can be handled with Jim's stuff.

For my part, I don't use either of those .lib's because it crates a nightmare keeping multple developers all sync'd up. I even go teh extra step of un-doing all of the work to set up the pallettes for third party drivers.

It pays off for me in the end when I can zip a single folder (and sub-folders) on my machine and e-mail it to one of my associated and everything is there with the proper linakages.

if i was using the same hardware all of the time I may feel differently. But for me, I use hardware for a couple of days and may never see the same widget ever again.

Ben

[LV_Pro]

Thanks Ben, figured I'd put it on here first, the left coasters were just getting up at 8:45 EDT! I really want to use some of the tools, guess I could move it all to my working directory, but that sounds painful too! And it is handy having it in its own pallette