I would be surprised if IBM ever offered this functionality. Right now you
can use SVN for RPG through circumstance and inheritance (iSeries Projects
are a subset of an eclipse project which can be SVN'd using Subclipse). IBM
would more than likely say "there are vendors for that, and we aren't going
to be stepping on their feet."
And even if IBM did offer it, I can bet it wouldn't just be built with one
thought in mind and would most likely have to cover a variety of needs, and
thus would be more generic than we would like.
I could however see alphaworks/developerworks putting something like this
together.
The simple fact of the matter is this (in my mind at least). IBM has
provided all the necessary exit points and resources we need to create it
ourselves (triggers, Java environment, IFS environment, SSL environment, job
scheduling, etc). And in reality there isn't a lot that needs to be done -
I would consider it a 40 to 50 hour project to get an entry level automated
"source backup/committer" programmed. Richard has already demonstrated some
of the simplicity by downloading and trying it yesterday. How long did that
take Richard? Less than 1hr?
Besides, there's too much fun to be had putting all the pieces together! :-)
Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john e
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Automate source code backup to SVN
Actually, reading all these posts and suggestions on how to properly set up
an environment in which RPG source is stored in a CM repository makes me
wonder...
Shouldn't WDSCi simply provide this functionality out of the box, because
SCM is quite an important part of any development process, especially in an
RPG shop i would say because of working in a team mostly and in a business
setting where it's often important to be able to record a history of
changes.
Besides, as you mentioned, it's not too hard i think to add the capability
in the form of a plug-in. It's just a matter of letting IBM know we need
this capability in the form of a plug-in or rather, integrated into the RSE.
I think it would be better IBM provides it as standard functionality than to
couble together a home-grown solution, resulting in different solutions,
instead of having the "default" solution as provided by WDSCi.
WDSCi supports CVS/SVN right now through the "projects" perspective, as was
mentioned earlier, because it's based on eclipse. It just happens to be that
it's not integrated with the RSE. One should be able to configure a
repository from within the RSE. At the moment sources are simply downloaded
from the System i5 into a default windows directory. From there on the local
copy is edited and when it's saved the associated sourcemember is updated.
The path to this directory reflects the IFS path, like
"QSYS.LIB/SOURCES.LIB/SRCFILE.FILE/PROGRAM.RPGLE". In the simplest, default
case, a repository could be associated with each connection and sources are
committed into the repository using the IFS path.
Jacobus
midrange.com
