Thanks for posting the link Lutz. I will dig into it deeper. It looks encouraging.
Tom Benedict > On Dec 10, 2018, at 01:26, Epperlein, Lutz (agendo) via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > >> Maybe we need to consider moving team development from the centralized 4D >> Team >> Developer model to a distributed model using individual copies of 4D. That >> would >> match the classic development model and practice which non-4D developers have >> enjoyed for decades.... Is anyone doing >> this yet? I would try it myself, but I’m not a Partner at this time. > > We have been doing something similar for some time with the VC_Framework > component. The original version of the component doesn't support the > re-import of code so we extended it with an import function for methods. The > procedure is a bit inconvenient, you have to do an additional step (the > import) manually after checking out the code from the versioning system > (Mercurial in our case) but it works flawlessly. We use this workflow and the > vc_framework component since 4d V13. Look here if you are interested: > https://github.com/elutz/vc-framework-v17 > > A remark: we don't use it for forms. An export of forms is possible using the > VC_framework. But we don’t re-import forms, since this is not possible > before 17R3. (And we don't do much GUI development in 4D, it is web > development mostly). It might be possible with 17R3 but we have to extend the > component again. If we start with 17R3 (or later V18) I think we will adapt > the component using the new features. > > Regarding this new features in 4D V17R3 I think they are based mainly on the > code of this component, the exported results look very similar. But a more in > depth test with the 17R3 we didn't do yet. > > Regards > Lutz > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
