RE: source control and file systems

I take your point about 'one giant source file' and although there could be
problems with it I think they can be overcome with a decent naming
convention.  Now what is a good naming convention is a really good question.
I've worked some places where the member type had to be incorporated into
the name... last character 'G' for RPG or 'C' for CLP.  This to me is a
waste of valuable space.  The only instance of this scheme that makes sense
is 'L' for logicals.  This way you can use the wildcard when you want to
CRTDUPOBJ to another library.  With sensible naming I don't think this is
really that big a problem.

I've never used GREP but the scenario you laid out sounds like you could do
the same with PDM option 25 with a '2' for the 'Option' parameter.  Granted
the members won't all be open for edit at the same time....

But hey - I'm open to persuasion!


Tom

 |  From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com]
 |  Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 17:07
 |  Subject: source control and file systems (was RE: SAA Historical
 |  perspective)

 |
 |  That creates other problems.  Now you have one giant source
 |  physical files
 |  with a huge number of members.  These members are not
 |  grouped by function
 |  or program, but alphabetically (or by date).  Unless you have a good
 |  naming convention who knows what goes with what?  And what is a good
 |  naming convention?  Granted this method does solve some
 |  problems but it is
 |  only a partial solution.

 |
 |  > I think having a hierarchy of directories to search for
 |  source members might
 |  > be overkill.
 |
 |  Imagine this:  You have all your source in /QOpenSys/mysource.
 |  /QOpenSys/mysource is NFS mounted on your computer.  You
 |  have a favorite
 |  text editor (mine is emacs, j is a cool java editor, heck
 |  even notepad
 |  would work).  You need to find all occurrences of you
 |  Super_API function
 |  call.  So you grep (hey grep again!) for "Super_API" in
 |  your NFS mounted
 |  source directory and open the resulting files in your
 |  favorite editor.
 |  Maybe your editor tracks recent files so you easily jump
 |  from source file
 |  to source file making your changes.
 |
 |  Or maybe just add a "Search directories recursively" option
 |  to search in
 |  PDM.
 |
 |  James Rich
 |  james@eaerich.com
 |
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