My point being: Is the iSeries really your only server box in today's
world ?
If you really want to run the SVN Server on iSeries, I believe you can
still use the Softlanding port or if the AIX one works you could use
that as well.
When I say "master copy" I mean the version of code that is always most
current and ready for editing. This is not an SVN term. Just a general
concept of the source files most always being the place to go for
initiating editing. As I've described previously, in my world you will
ALWAYS still be able to check-out source members from SVN and commit
changes from ANY SVN client. Your source files and SVN would be kept
in-sync via regular updates and commits.
I think you may be missing the concept that SVN would still ALWAYS be
handling the versioning, tracking tags, branches, etc. even if the
source files are still used as masters.
In my opinion the only thing that IS lacking is a native iSeries SVN
client. I believe that's pretty much what I've been talking about all
along :-)
Ultimately it doesn't matter where the SVN repository lives. The issue
is how to make it easy for iSeries developers (RDI or SEU) to naturally
tie into SVN. If it's more than a few clicks, then it's cumbersome.
I'll use the same comment I tell customers: "Our job is to reduce the
number of mouse clicks it takes you to do your daily work. If we
haven't done that, then we haven't helped you much :-)"
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 3
date: Sun, 23 May 2010 07:48:17 -0700 (PDT)
from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Subversion and RPG source change management
From: Richard Schoen
You could always run SVN on your workstation which is probably Windows
or Linux :-)
No, my laptop wouldn't do. It's not always connected to a network.
Isn't the whole idea of SVN to support team development? I'd be more in
favor of running SVN under PASE, if it can be done.
I'm also not sure about the term "master copy". Is that an SVN term?
As far as SVN clients are concerned, it seems to me that storing a copy
of source in an IBM i library would not be that much different than
storing a copy in a personal PC directory. Sure the file systems are
different. And an IBM i development library supports multiple
concurrent users. But the role is not that much different. Most PC
IDEs are complete development, deployment, and runtime environments,
too; except for just one person.
The thing that appeals to me about SVN is the version(ing) support. It
has a strait forward method for tracking and storing current as well as
ancestor versions. It's better than appending a version number to an
IBM i library name, and copying everything to it.
If SVN were able to run under PASE, the thing that would be lacking
here, would be a native IBM i client, for browsing, and synchronizing
SVN repositories, with IBM i libraries.
-Nathan.
midrange.com
