> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Larry Jones > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:26 PM > To: Mark D. Baushke > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: .dfm files check in as text in CVS leads to any > corruption? > > Mark D. Baushke writes: > > > > If there are "Delphi/C++Builder Forms", I would > > have thought those to be derived objects rather > > than primary source files to be controlled. > > No, the .dfm file is the actual definition of the form. By default, > Borland stores it in an opaque binary format for no apparently good > reason, but, to their credit, they also provide an option to store it > in a nice, plain text format that is amenable to CVS operations. [snip]
Hmmmm. This information is not accurate. By default, Borland stores it in *text* format, not binary, at least since May 2001, when it released Delphi 6. Of course if Mr. Baushke is still using Delphi 5, you're right. The company I work for have been developing systems using Delphi since it's first incarnation, and the forms were all binary. Of course, during the migration from Delphi 4 to Delphi 6, I had to create a cvs repository to be used as backup repository of all forms in binary format, and since we were also migrating from Merant PVCS to CVS, I altered the PVCStoCVS perl script to convert every dfm to its text format before adding a release of a dfm to its RCS file. Alexandre. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
