Re: New RFE for your perusal

Saying the right thing is hard. I envy you authors (in the good way)!

Funny you should say that. When I write articles I first have an internal
grammar smith fix it up and then the trade rag has their grammar smith
formulate it to their mag's style. Those people make geeks sound so much
better than we are :-)

Git + make is a non-starter for me compared to Git + a home grown 'promote

to production' command.

Note that "make" isn't for promoting/deploying, it is for building. Once
the project is built then the deploy can happen. There are tools to do
deploy but custom scripts/CL are fine also. I use tools and custom shell
scripts for open source stuff. Actually, having done a lot more shell
scripting this past year makes me realize shell scripting is what I had
always hoped CL would be.

I look forward to a 'Cheap CM For RPG Dummies' workflow article or wiki

page.

That would be cool.


Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/5/2016 10:32 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

Actually, I was talking about Git not knowing anything of IBM i objects.
It wasn't designed to, so of course it doesn't.

Like saying a table saw is poor at pounding in nails... pounding nails is
not a feature of a table saw.

Saying the right thing is hard. I envy you authors (in the good way)!

I was trying to caution readers that Git is not Free IBM i Change
Management.

I've been playing with Git + iProjects + make for some time. In terms
of workflow, that combination has made my life more difficult due
specifically to the lack of integration. Neither Git nor make are
IBM-aware, and iProjects is just odd enough that it's not easy for me -
a decades-long RDi user - to jump in and get things done.

Git has added manual steps to my workflow. Git adds value in the
ability to drop back to earlier versions of the source. When I weigh
the value against the level of effort required to obtain that value, I
personally see marginal usefulness.

I don't find Git a slam dunk.

Git + make is a non-starter for me compared to Git + a home grown
'promote to production' command. The value added by make is overwhelmed
by the manual effort required to write the .mak files.

Other people will weigh the same factors and come to a different
conclusion. I'm OK with that because I'm probably not doing it
optimally. I look forward to a 'Cheap CM For RPG Dummies' workflow
article or wiki page. Because I'll almost certainly learn something.

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