by * Jesse Stockall Version 1.1 2002/01/23
These tasks provide an interface to the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe SCM via SourceGear's SourceOffSite product. SourceOffSite is an add-on to Microsoft's VSS, that allows remote development teams and tele-commuters that need fast and secure read/write access to a centralized SourceSafe database via any TCP/IP connection. SOS provides Linux ,Solaris & Windows clients. The org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.sos package consists of a simple framework to support SOS functionality as well as some Ant tasks encapsulating frequently used SOS commands. Although it is possible to use these commands on the desktop, they were primarily intended to be used by automated build systems. These tasks have been tested with SourceOffSite version 3.5.1 connecting to VisualSourceSafe 6.0. The tasks have been tested with Linux, Solaris & Windows2000.