FLASH: Version Control for large projects

[Alias|Rob]

Hello Flashers,

                As some of you might be aware, I'm working on a fairly

large project, (moonfruit.com) which involves having lots of developers

working on different files simultaneously. I would be interested to know

if anyone has any experience of version control for the FLAs, especially

when working with multiple developers in different places.  Currently,

we're using CVS, which was originally designed for version control on

programming projects, which uses source code written in plain text. This

is fine for perl and C code, but when you are using a source file format

that is proprietary by nature(the FLAs), in conjunction with compiled

binaries, (the SWFs) the whole proposition gets a lot more complex.  For

example, two people cannot edit the same file at once, and it often gets

very difficult to work out which file is the latest version, and which

binary corresponds with which source file.

                Does anyone know whether there is currently, or whether

macromedia has plans to introduce, any method of determining which FLA

corresponds to which swf file? Possibly some kind of serial number

embedded in the swf?  It could be done in around eight bytes, and would

only be of use to the developer who created the original file. Maybe

this is already inplace? Could this be included as part of the new Flash

5 authoring environment?



            Any comments, officcial statements, or anecdotes from

previous experience would be much appreciated.


            Sincerely,


            Alias|Rob



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