Re: Removing sequence numbers only in download

Right, John. I don't think the source sequence aren't as helpful to anyone
as the source line dates.

While I respect RDi's philosophy on this, I don't think it is helpful at
all to those who are planning to transition and at the same time want to
keep the dates. While we can create tools/utilities to drop the sequence,
it will be a lot easier if it is readily available and supported by RDi.
Hopefully, IBM changes its mind on this.

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:12 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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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