Re: New RFE for your perusal -- MIDRANGE-L

I was thinking 'make test' and 'make install'.

Good point. And my commentary might be in large part how I use 'make'.
The 'make test' and 'make install' is most times used because I am doing
iterative builds of an open source project I am porting to IBM i. Then
when I go to deploy I am deploying the result of 'make' to another machine
(usually involves a 'git pull' from a production branch).

Setting authorities, object auditing, journals - all this and more happens

in IBM i but not in an open source build like say, the Gimp, or PGP.

I see now why we aren't understanding each other. You are talking about
building and installing tools. I am talking about home grown
applications. Note: Things like authorities are necessary on the open
source side of things when deploying.

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

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/5/2016 11:55 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

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.

I was thinking 'make test' and 'make install'.

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.

The central 'problem' as it were, is that no combination of open source
tooling is IBM i-aware. Deploying an RPG main program, its associated
*DSPF, the *SRVPGM it depends upon, the prototype source member that
other programs will eventually depend upon - all this is different to
copying files around which is what happens in PC land. Setting
authorities, object auditing, journals - all this and more happens in
IBM i but not in an open source build like say, the Gimp, or PGP.

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 suspect that CL was always left very vanilla in order to encourage the
community and vendors to enhance it via 3rd party commands.

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