RE: RPG sources and Concurrent Version Sistem

Rob:

<snip>
Ok, now some people will start foaming at the mouth, but here goes.  In
my 
library I use QPGMSRC.  I don't use QRPGLESRC, QRPGSRC, QCLSRC.  And I'd

rather use QFILESRC than a combo of QDDSSRC and QSQLSRC.  Why?  Because 
I've created a program from scratch in one language or another only to 
find a matching one in a different language get clobbered when I
compiled 
it.
</snip>

Instead of foaming at the mouth, I am in complete agreement with the
concept.  I think IBM missed the boat when naming source files.  As you
indicated (or probably, like me, found out the hard way), source is used
to create objects of a particular type.  So, if you are creating a *PGM
object, perhaps the source file should have been called QPGMSRC, files
QFILSRC (one can argue specific spellings, but you get the idea).

At a previous employer I instituted using QMODSRC as a repository for
creating modules (we always created modules, then used CRTPGM to create
the program).  We left QDDSSRC alone (I know...I'm contradicting myself)
but ALL *FILE source was already there.  At my current employer I
inherited separate source files for each file type (QDDSSRC for PF/LF,
QDSPSRC for DSPF, QPRTFSRC for PRTF).  As I work on the next incarnation
of our application I will change that.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees the logic of this approach.
--Bruce Guetzkow