Re: Comparing source members

Luis

I know there's no connection between Subversion and the extensions. Guess they were mentioned in the same paragraph. <bg>

From what you say, it sounds like you work directly with the library source using Subversion. Was not aware this was possible, hence my assumption that you're working with IFS copies or something. It has seemed like major hurdles to bring source PF members under the Subversion umbrella, although that could be very desirable in terms of cross-platform development.

So a clear presentation of how to do this, as you say, through the whole process, would be great. I'm very interested, as some of us use Subversion regularly for Java and maybe eventually for VB too.

I find having the source change date at the line level useful when I want to know what I have recently worked on - some projects have taken a while, and this is helpful - although there might be ways to make it unnecessary - don't know.

Thanks
Vern

At 10:50 AM 12/21/2007, you wrote:

Vern, you wrote:

The RSE Extensions are next best for me, but they strip
the source sequence and source change date. Sequence is not such a
big deal, but change date can be. That will be a loss, in my view,
when going to editing in IFS and using subversion, etc.

Subversion doesn't use the RSE extensions. When you use Subversion (and I assume that the same applies to CVS) you keep the sequence number and change dates. The merge is really easy to use.

The only (and not minor) problem with Subversion is that you need to re-wire the way your work (and your brain) flows... unfortunately there are not many resources out there for WDSC, CVS/Subversion, and the iSeries. There are many tutorials for Unix and PC developers, but not for iSeries developers. In addition to that, the tutorials I have seen focus on the details of the operations with Subversion, but don't put out the great picture of the full software development life cycle with the iSeries (I guess they let you to figure out that by yourself).

If there is interest, I could start a tutorial for WDSC, Subversion and the iSeries. I'm still a learner, but maybe we could figure out something good.

Luis