Is a Pier Cub better than a rowboat? Neither can do what he other does. If you're trying to deal with dependencies, SMP is better than anything else that I've seen. If you have independent developers updating the same source module, SMP is useless.
When the only tool in your toolkit is a pipe, everything looks like filter. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Pew, Curtis G <curtis....@austin.utexas.edu> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Comparing SMP/E to Git On May 20, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh <vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com<mailto:vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com>> wrote: On the other end, GitLab (a provider of Git) is now offering package management. Are the 2 products/technologies converging? Hypothetically, if they are, is Git better than SMP/E, or vice versa? That is... is tomorrow's SMP/E going to be "Not Your Father's SMP/E", having stood the test of time, and possibly better at version control / package mgmt than Git? Again, I just want to hear folks' thoughts on this topic.. >From what I’ve seen, the package management offered by GitLab and GitHub are >distinct products from their git support. I would still say the use cases for git (version control during development) and a package manager like SMP/E or rpm or the Git* offerings (managing dependencies in deployed software) are different enough that viewing them as somehow competitive would be a mistake. -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:curtis....@austin.utexas.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
