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Re: Removing sequence numbers only in download

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:31 AM Edmund Reinhardt
<edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It has been RDi's philosophy so far to support either full seq + date
which is compatible with the IBM i members or straight source which would
be compatible with IFS source.

While I understand that philosophy, I think it's more inflexible than
it needs to be. It is patently obvious that the source line dates
matter somewhat to some people, but equally obvious that the sequence
numbers absolutely do not matter at all to anyone.

Even lines that you don't touch might have to have their sequence
number changed, because you've inserted code elsewhere. So there is no
point in attempting to preserve them. There is no reason RDi couldn't
simply ignore the sequence number upon download and populate the
(recalculated) sequence number as needed upon upload to a source
member. This wouldn't introduce any "incompatibility" whatsoever with
source members.

John Y.

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