I remember Joe! That good ol guy that said this was okay 15 years ago! But Allen and Jeff I couldn't agree with you more. Especially when, with PRC, all those revisions (backup copies) are made and kept for you automatically ... can be searched, reviewed, compared or rebuilt from any point. While the central notations about the project are stored on the project along with whatever else was modified at the same time as that particular program for that particular project.
Notes on programs and other items can be stored in a central repository *and*, if you really like having them there, at a designated heading location in the program (rotating out from the most recent x lines, if you wish.) All within a secure (and compliant) framework ... did I mention AUTOMATICALLY? (And that's just the source control part!) Oops, did I get a little excited there! PRC(r) - Real software configuration management for U2! http://sjplus.com [SJ] --------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:28:37 -0700 From: "Allen E. Elwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [U2] Good Programming Practice Question......... I'll second that motion. If you *really* want source control, get serious about it and save all previous versions with dates as part of the id. Then you can just do source compares if you need to go back a rev. When you get a 2300 line program, and 1700 of the lines have comments with project numbers and permission about who said to do it, the overhead to keep the revision history ***HARD CODED*** becomes 60% or more of the project. Let the computer do the work for you. Instead of hard coding revisions, keep a revision file! By saving the program before modifying it, it becomes 0.01% overhead, and a.fish.in.sea is the name of the game. Since I end up going back a revision, about once out of every 1500 programs I change, I don't think it's a great idea to obfuscate the code with "Joe said this was ok 02-02-88" when "Joe" worked for the company 15 years ago and nobody even remembers who he was. - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Schasny Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 08:56 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] Good Programming Practice Question......... I've got to disagree with this one. This is the job of your source code control system. I've seen applications which were commented in this manner over a number of years and they are almost unreadable due to the sheer volume of mod tags. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
