Re: EGL vs. Java

[Brian <system.i.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

How hard would it be to roll your own PDM?  Maybe an opportunity for a
useful System i community open source project?

Regards,

BJ


On 2/1/08, Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree with Tom.  I'll happily give up SEU, SDA, and RLU, but until there's
> a graphical interface that provides sub-second access to thousands of
> objects or members without building a filter first, PDM is a very valuable
> tool.  You don't want to know how long it takes RSE to list the handful of
> source files (with, as I said, thousands of members) in our production
> source library on a simple drill-down.
>
> I'm eyeing this change with a bit of dread.  Our machines are P50s with
> roughly 150 developers.  I could see someone deciding that everyone gets
> ADTS only as a cost-saving measure.  It would be so much easier to argue the
> case for getting RDi for those of us who want to use it if PDM wasn't part
> of the equation so that we would never need ADTS again...
>
> Dave Shaw