Business Application Framework

[Graham Samuel]

This conversation (about version control for LS projects worked on by teams, not really about BAF at all at this point) is beginning to go over my head. Long ago I worked in enormous projects (not far off 100 people) without comprehensive version control, and I guess we did something like Brahmanathaswami is describing here… frankly I think one has to be scared of systems which require command-line gnomes to operate them; likewise one has to be scared of team-support systems that don’t have some form of regression-testing and integration framework available as well as pure version control. 

To me the ideal is a system which can be explained to a team in an hour and which everyone can then stick to. My (fractured) reading of this conversation gives me the idea that we are approaching Gnome-ville, where really nothing can be explained in an hour.

I suppose this semi-rant is a plea to keep us less nerdy folk in the loop by explaining all the concepts of LC-working-in-a-version-controlled-context in a non-jargon-filled way. Any takers?

Graham

PS Just going back to the BAF, where does object-oriented programming come in, and what does it do to the current model in which LC operates? I think that’s another thread: it’s certainly another source of confusion.

> On 13 Aug 2015, at 04:37, Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:
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> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> So lets dive in with lcVCS in v7 today, and with any luck the project will attract enough contributors that they'll be able to handle at least some of whatever work may be needed to port it to v8 later, allowing you to maximize the time you spend on your externals which the community depends on as well. 
> Good positive move to take the energy from this somewhat tense thread to pour into a useful direction. Though I still think it behooves Kevin to consider VCS for the whole community --  it would be "HUGE" for his goals to make LC one of the world's top languages.
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> I did study the Git book and that level of code control, played with it for a while using some scripts on the web server... I found myself spending more and more time on the cmd line than I would have liked. No doubt one who is using GIT a lot will become very efficient.. It certainly is a powerful tool. But for one level of user it's a bit time consuming and feels like it gets in the way...
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> Meanwhile... I guess what I'm saying is, a full blown GIT management of scripts is scary to me when I would be content with "document" control... where a stack is a document and in some contexts it can simply be shared with someone else  or "checked out" they work on it and "check it back in" ... while it is "check out" I can't touch it. If there were some way to regress and view changes that would be super, but not necessarily required. A simple approach is, Person A gives it Person B and B makes improvements. If nothing is broken... keep on going.. if person B messes up... we delete his version and regress back one and keep going...
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> I made my own "magic carpet" in-house for InDesign document RCS and our team loves it. We have, in 4 years since we abandoned Adobe's version control, not lost any work or the the ability to regress to a previous version. 12 people working on the same document repositories on the LAN server.
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>  It would be simple for me to adapt my model to include HTTP calls to the server. The model is super simple: document is archived and checked in... if it is checked out by someone else, you can't touch it. When someone else checks it back in, another copy is made both on the server and locally. At anytime something breaks (iteraton21.livecode) there's copies of the last revision (iteration20.livecode)  in 3 places, on user's A hard drive, the server and on user B hard drive. We can always recover.  Its simple but robust "pass the baton." RCS
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> I realize that the super coders would find that simply too limiting... but I think it works for a lot of not-so-edge cases.
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> A strong Video screen tutorial on lcVCS might be useful. I want to see if that's where I want to go, or resurrect Magic Carpet... Perhaps there is, within lcVCS a way to keep it that simple.
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> Monte... do you have documentation I can read somewhere?  I have a need coming up here soon. I'm in the middle of working on a mobile app, and will shortly reach my limits and then I'll want to pass it off to others to improve, re-factor my code if necessary and fill out the features that are beyond my competency.  So I'm scratching my head right now about just how to do that. Methods now are painful: FTP to server... send someone an email. manually change file names etc...
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> Maybe we need to move this to a new thread?  Anyone ever hear from Chip in Texas?  (author of Magic Carpet)  Altuit.com not longer seems to be up.  Chipp seems to have moved on to other planets: http://blog.chipp.com/
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> Cheers from Hawaii. Monte, I hope your farm is not too cold down there!
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> Brahmanathaswami
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