Hello all,

I'm in the process of evaluating alternatives to Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe and would like to pose a question to the list.

Most of our team's work is embedded software that winds up in a series of plug-in module boards for our main product line. From a software management perspective that means we have a lot of small projects that share a fair amount of code. VSS provides a mechanism that makes this module sharing very easy, and is one of the reasons we've kept it around as long as we have. I'm curious if Perforce provides similar functionality. I know it's not going to work exactly like VSS, which is fine, but I'd like something that would allow me to: 1. Make a change once and have it show up in multiple projects the next time I build them; and 2. sit down at a machine and pull an entire project with shared files in it out of the repository and build it without having to do a bunch of client-side configuration.

We're happy to modify our way of doing things a bit as long as we get the right functionality in the end.

Thanks in advance to any VSS converts out there who can help me along with this and other tidbits about converting from a VSS installation.