Re: Suggestions for maintaining source code

Excellent question!

As the 'source maintainer' for our company (I purposely avoided calling
myself
a programmer out of respect for those that are!) I have been burned a few
times
by CUMe CD's that did not really have the latest source, compounded by lack
of
source on the MAPICS website occasionally.

I've yet to find a really good practice.  I'm in the midst of migrating to
a new Iseries
box (this weekend) and once again it would have been helpful to be better
aware
how to handle the quagmire known as R6 PTF's.



                                                                                
               
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Like many of you, over the years we have had to modify some MAPICS source
code. I consider myself extremely lucky in that the modifications have been
whittled down to a half dozen programs, but I still have to manage these
changes as if they were a hundred changes.

Because of these few changes I don't stay current on my PTFs. Now I am
embarking on the process of upgrading several PTF levels over the next
couple weeks. However, I need to verify that the programs that I have
modified are not changed in the PTF. What are some ways that you insure
that
your modified source code is at the correct version -- especially when you
install multiple PTFs?

I have thought to save the original MAPICS objects to another library and
compare the versions after the ACSAPPLY. If they don't match then I will
download the latest source and make the modifications.

What are your suggestions?

Patrick



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