RE: Subversion and RPG source change management

Just export your DDS and RPGLE to an i project and use SVN in conjunction with RDI and you should be good.

No need to be fancy.

Just need to commit to using RDI to move source to the I when it needs to be compiled.

I believe there are some tutorials out there on how to do it. It just didn't feel right to me. I prefer the source library to be the master and SVN the backup.

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date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:39:09 -0700 (MST)
from: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Subversion and RPG source change management

On Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Richard Schoen wrote:

Possible options:
Use the RDI development environment and iProjects. You can hook that
up to SVN, but now your core projects would have to live off the i.
Klunky.

Roll your own approach. Not for the faint of heart :-)

Ok. I was looking for a way to include my DDS and RPGLE code into an existing svn repository. We use svn for everything else and the IBM i stuff just sits sort of on its own outside the repository. It would be nice to have all the source in one place. I'm not faint of heart, but I'm also not convinced it is worth spending a lot of time on.

James Rich

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