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Re: create package

From: S2 <email_at_mail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:38:53 +0200
Message-ID: <3DA663ED.5040004@mail.com>


Karsten Farell wrote:
> 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. :)
>

you've got the point Karsten.

-- 
regards,
Simon
Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 00:38:53 CDT

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