Re: Source/object mis-match

["Dare @ Work" <oludare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need a good change management apps like Turnover.

----- Original Message -----
From: <MacWheel99@aol.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Source/object mis-match


> You might ask if anyone knows about the site's programming standards & if
> they have been followed religiously.  Do you have some document some place
> that spells out any such rules?
>
> I use QDOCSRC for the purpose of telling PROGRAMMERS what's going on &
> something in the generic BPCSDOC for a larger audience.  The first
document
> in our QDOCSRC is A_READ_ME with purpose statement & navigation guidance
to
> all the documents.
>
> Example: I develop something in the TEST library, we do some tests, the
> results are real good but we want to tweak it a bit more before going
live,
> then after a while everyone is pleased.
>
> Now we could copy the execution objects from TEST to LIVE, but I do not
like
> that approach because 6 months later there is a request from someone to do
> another modification & thanks to PDM-54 I can see that the version in TEST
> source has stuff not in the LIVE source but I cannot remember if the TEST
> work was something we abandoned or if it was something implemented.
>
> The way I prefer is to rename the LIVE source with some letter appended as
a
> backup just in case of the old good source, then copy the TEST source to
LIVE
> & recompile it in LIVE, so that the TEST version, if we hang on to it, is
in
> sync with the LIVE version.
>
> If your shop has had multiple cooks, it is possible that different people
> have been handling this different ways, so you not have a consistent story
> with object management.
>
> MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
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