Re: Namespaces -- was: Debug slows program by a factor of 30?

Mark,

Vendors who use any "open source libraries" (and *SRVPGMs, etc.) and who distribute those with their software should ("must") rename those *SRVPGMs to match their own vendor-unique naming standards, and should also prefix the names of all EXPORTed procedures, etc., with their unique *SRVPGM name(s).

That way, they can use open-source library routines without fear of collisions with other versions of that same open-source library that might be "in use" at any given customer installation, etc., especially if the vendor has incorporated any "local" fixes or modifications to that open-source library (or any of its procedures/functions.)

Hope that helps,

Mark  S.  Waterbury

> On 12/6/2017 10:10 AM, Mark Murphy wrote:

I have noticed that CGIDEV2 conflicts with other published libraries
because it includes them, and changes the code slightly. It might be a bug
fix, or some such, but it causes issues that proper namespacing could
address. BTW there is an RFE out there to provide namespacing in RPG.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am using both. I agree 100% with the Java comment. It is very slow.

FWIW - my conflict was between CGIDEV2 and an old utility called SQL2XLS
that I sometimes use. The latter must use CGIDEV2 as well, and must not
clean up after itself.