I don't have a nice clean technical answer to this. But I can share with you anecdotal information:
PRC offers delivery of object or delivery of source with a trigger on the 'destination' to recompile delivered programs. No one ever believes in delivered object code across even two identical machines. We often talk about it -- but there's a (perhaps unfounded) universal mistrust that it will be correct. Movements between Realms (accounts) on the same machine, yes, people often take advantage of the ability to promote the object items. But everyone makes the same choice about moving source and recompiling on another machine! I think many of us are just as suspicious of the mechanism of moving binary object code to another machine as we are of subtle differences in that object code as it would be produced on the other machine. But -- again, I'm just running off at the mouth here because I have absolutely no technical foundation to share. Some of my customers have a clear reason not to trust moved object, some of them just have a gut feeling. But again, the final result is clear: no one believes in it. It would be interesting to hear if others believe they have clear-cut reasons for or against it! Susan Joslyn SJ+ Systems Associates, Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:19:29 -0400 From: Moderator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [U2] Source code question POSTED ON BEHALF A NON-MEMBER Hello guru's I've got question about source code. If I compile on 2 different machines and 2 different OS ex. HP-UX and AIX but on the same Universe versions the same source code (any basic code) did they work the same ? Maybe there are some system specific basic funcions which working different on different OS's. Conclusion : If I have source aplication ( all in UV Basic ) after migrating(compiling) on another OS there could be some changes between this two applications ex. different calculations, time representations etc.?? Regards Radoslaw ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:05:45 -0500 From: "Larry Friedlander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [U2] Source code question ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:40:29 -0400 From: Steven M Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [U2] Source code question The answer is a big fat maybe. It will depend on how different the OS's are and how tied into the OS the UV application is. I know that UV on HP-UX stored internal time as an integer and UV on WinNT includes the milliseconds. So a change from HP-UX to NT could be a major change. Different versions of Unix may not be quite as dramatic. Can you share what two different OSes you are considering? Steve Wagner At 06:19 PM 6/4/05 -0400, you wrote: >POSTED ON BEHALF A NON-MEMBER >Hello guru's > >I've got question about source code. >If I compile on 2 different machines and 2 different OS ex. HP-UX and AIX >but on the same Universe versions the same source code (any basic code) >did they work the same ? Maybe there are some system specific basic >funcions which working different on different OS's. >Conclusion : If I have source aplication ( all in UV Basic ) after >migrating(compiling) on another OS there could be some changes between >this two applications ex. different calculations, time representations etc.?? > > >Regards > >Radoslaw ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
