Re: create package

Rauf Sarwar wrote:
> STOP. Have your customer/s and you heard about source code control
> system and versioning? Why mess around with copying source code of one
> schema to another schema and saving it in the database. Oracle is an
> RDBMS for heaven's sake...You are trying to use it to control versions
> of your source code that created the same database. Am I missing
> something here????
> /Rauf Sarwar

I might be wrong (been there, done that, before) ... I don't think the OP is talking about versions of the package. It sounds like the sort of thing people do all the time with an Excel spreadsheet ... play what-if games.

It was also a very common request way back in ancient history when I was a scientific programmer ... we had to write "flexible" FORTRAN (they didn't have dynamic FORTRAN) to allow the physicists to pick and choose the algorithms they wanted to use to see how the sonar would behave under different conditions. We used parameter files to store the current equations they wanted to try out.

I get the feeling that this is the sort of thing the OP is trying to accomplish ... though probably not for a bunch of physicists ... perhaps for accountants. He wants the package to be flexible enough to allow for any formula the users can dream up ... but which he doesn't know in advance. If he knew all the possible what-if equations, he could certainly code them all and put them under version control.

Like I said, I might be way off base here ... and letting an old memory of my FORTRAN days cloud my interpretation of this thread. :) Received on Thu Oct 10 2002 - 10:41:08 CDT