On 29 Feb 2008, at 08:01, Malte Brill wrote:
Hi Mark,
>Who is using RunRev in a group development environment? (reply if
you are)
Me :)
>How many developers are on the team?
Up to 5
>Are the developers in the same office or are the team members
spread over
>different regions or countries?
Most of the time same office, somtimes spread across regions
>How are you handling "master" stack updates to the server?
Very carefully. ;-)
>How do you handle "code" (.rev files) check-out and check-in?
SVN
>Bottom line, is RunRev a good tool to use in a production team
environment?
The file format is not really team friendly given its binary
nature. It boils down to that every team member is working on one
module (stack) at the time, which get loaded by a splash screen
master stack in the deployed version. If cards need to be in the
same stack, but different people are working on them, we either
copy over the cards, or ping ourselfs in an IM system. "Do you have
xyz.rev in use at the moment? Please check it in to SVN that I can
do my bits" And in a few cases this goes wrong. Given the binary
nature of stacks, SVN can not merge them, which is a pity. I wrote
an XML exporter for stacks, that can export a stack to XML and
recreate the stack afterwards. However, this has some difficulties,
as there are some properties, that can not be set by script (ID
being one). So one needs to design the stacks carefully (do not
refer to controls by ID) and I gave up on that approach.
I found the best way to handle this was to export all the script as
text files and them to a compare/merge of the source code and import
the text files back into a "master" stack that is used to build the
standalone application. For example:
Fred, George and Sally all work on "StackA" at the same time. They
then want to merge their changes into one masterstack. There is a
template stack (Template_StackA) that only contains the GUI
elements, no script code. They export the scripts from their stacks
and do a merge/compare on the text files. The template file is copied
into a new folder and the new text files are imported back into the
corresponding objects in the stack.
Hope this helps
All the Best
Dave
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