Re: Quick survey - how well structured are your RPG apps?

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, L. S. Russell wrote:

> larger number of potential customers. Like Hans said once before,
> providing frameworks on which to build e-commerce apps is perhaps the
> best thing we can do to ensure that RPG and the AS/400 are attractive.

Something that seems to be blocking the development of such a framework is
the lack of a good build utility.  As I develop with ILE (which is great
to have) I am frustrated that there isn't a build utility like make.  I
have various modules and service programs that may or may not need to be
recompiled.  I may need to check that required software is installed (like
autoconf does).  I need a *simple* way to list dependencies.  It is simple
to type 'make' and then 'make install'.  As far as I can tell no such
thing exists for the AS/400.

This is important when you are building a framework on which to base other
projects.  If I want to make a collecton of modules that can be reused by
any developer that developer needs to be able to check that everything
needed is installed and then compile and link with potentially a huge
numbers of smaller pieces.  In the RPG III days everything was in one
program (maybe some DDS and a CL program to go with it), so you didn't
really need a make program.  Now with programming done better in smaller
modules that are reusable we need make to help stick everything together.

Maybe there is a make utility that I am not aware of?  At least there is
nothing that is included with the RPG compiler.

James Rich
james@dansfoods.com

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