Re: Forms/PVCS users out there ?

Scott Whitehead wrote:
>
> I am implementing PVCS to use in conjunction with Forms. After
> several weeks experimentation and a couple of calls to Oracle support,
> I have found that there is nothing to be gained using the Forms PVCS
> interface. We are better off using the GUI provided with PVCS. Even
> though the Forms interface will convert to text (.FMT) automatically
> before checking it into PVCS (and visa-versa when checking out),
> Oracle support steered me away from that since the FMT format will
> change in Developer/2000 version 2.0, thus rendering our archives
> unusable. So we will be using the PVCS GUI tool and version the
> binary FMBs. So the major drawbacks are: no differencing and no use
> of keywords. But I guess I'll have to live with it.
>
> Anyone else find this same scenario ? Did you come to the same
> conclusions ?

Yes and Yes. We've been running PVCS to version our app for over a year. The extra step to go into PVCS is not as cumbersome as you might think. There are times when the differencing would be nice, but as you say, we just live with it. Besides, Oracle can't seem to come up with a way (or I don't know of it) for us to get all the code out of a form anyway, which is really what we want to difference.

Good Luck!

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Robert Christenson
Gazette Technologies
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