Brian, Jerry, and everyone. It is possible to implement source code control that is "transparent" to the programmer yet capable of supporting complex development and production scenarios with tools and utilities that were designed and written entirely in an MV / Pick / U2 environment.
NuControl from Binary Star offers an easily implemented version control solution that will manage multiple projects and multiple libraries (code, working and backup), across multiple systems. It supports basic code, segments, scripts, function libraries, configuration data, DICTS, etc. Compare, rollback, release, etc. <blatant ad> I'd be happy to demonstrate NuControl from Binary Star can do, including full life-cycle management (promotion). It's easy to use and comes with a full screen, color highlighted "programmer's editor". For details: http://www.nuwiki.com/cgi-bin/nuwiki.cgi?display=ABOUT%20SCCS (NuControl supports ALL modern mv environments including UniVerse, UniData, D3, QM Professional and Reality (Northgate). Lee Bacall binarystar.com </blatant ad> PRC which is Susan Joslyn's product, offers a unique and capable solution for (and requiring) System Buiilder. http://www.sjplus.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Leach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:29 AM Subject: RE: [U2] version control > Jerry et al > > I would say good version control - like all code management - is a skill. > > And more so the more diverse your code base. If you are just hacking away at > (say) an old D3 application you can probably get away with a lot. If you > need to support multiple versions, platforms, client/server and web tiers, > probably half a dozen languages, shared libraries etc. the work involved in > just managing that should not be - and all too often is by management - > underestimated. Hence my comment. This should not be something that is just > put in without thought and left to run by itself. It won't. Time taken to > plan this now will pay huge dividends down the line. Time not spent will > bite you in the bum. A badly put together versioning system is worse than > useless - you won't be able to get out what you need at time of crisis, and > you will have become complacent thinking that it is there. > > In our case we had an excellent developer and DBA who took on the role of > managing the version control, and did it extremely well. I'm very thankful, > especially when we needed his services. Without one person to manage it, it > would have become a mess. I would probably have been the worse culpit. > > You only really appreciate these things once you've been burned without them > (like a good and verified backup strategy!). > They need to be approached seriously. > > Brian ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
