Re: FMX version control

But is it advisable to store the .FMT file rather than the .FMB? Can you trust a source code system to perform text-merging on an FMT file and still expect Form Builder to be able to put it back together afterwards?

We're using CVS and we're storing the FMB files. Potentially it could take a lot of storage someday, and there are other drawbacks. There has to be a lot of coordination so two people don't commit different versions of the files ... someone will lose their changes.

I had heard about storing the FMT files but I wasn't sure how well this would work. With our C code, if two developers modify the same segment of the same source code file, CVS marks the area with conflict indicators and the second developer has to resolve the conflict in the source code file before it can be committed. I shudder to think if a developer was going in to do this to an FMT, since I've heard Form Builder 6 is pretty sticky about the format of them when converting back to FMB?

On 26 Sep 2000 04:47:11 GMT, danhw_at_aol.com (DanHW) wrote:

>>Starting with Forms5 we found it impossible to convert (our admittedly
>>big ugly) fmts back to fmbs.
>>
>>Also starting with Forms5 PLSQL is dumped in HEX not ASCII. This is
>>still storable under a source code management system but it doesn't work
>>very well, if just the differences are stored.
>>
>>John Strange wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you think their might be a compile/link time stamp
>>> in the fmx.
>>>
>>> For verison control why not convert the .fmb to .fmt
>>> and place the fmt to a source management system.
>>>
>>> Kevin (kcheung_at_poboxes.com) wrote:
>>> : Is there any real good measure to maintain
>>> : version of fmx files?
 

>>> : I tried to use the same fmb file to
>>> : generate 2 times into 2 fmx.
>>> : But the checksum of these 2 fmx are
>>> : different even though they are from the
>>> : same fmb.
 

>>> : Please help
>>> : TIA
>>> : Kevin
>>>
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>Patch 7 [WinNT] for Developer fixes this bug (FMT-->FMB). Then you should be
>able to convert them somewhat. You can also store the "Object List Report" [on
>Admin menu], which is a pure text representation of the form, but it is not
>reversible
  Received on Thu Oct 05 2000 - 20:44:00 CEST