Hello Appeon Team,
What are your plans for PBL dependency removal? It was being said after 2017 Release that PowerBuilder will get rid off PBL. What's the plan?
Hello Appeon Team,
What are your plans for PBL dependency removal? It was being said after 2017 Release that PowerBuilder will get rid off PBL. What's the plan?
FWIW: I've been using PB since 1989 version 0.8 alpha and have never encountered a corrupt PBL. However, I don't trust SCC alone ... tons of regular incremental file backups too. ;-)
Regards .. Chris
@Christopher: the PB implementation of GIT requires you to push PBLs to the repo at least once. A new folder "ws_objects" is created that mirrors the PBL structure, containing the source files in seperate folders named after the respective pbl. This at least removes the need for pbg-files and makes it easier to move source files to another library.
This enables you to check out a project from GIT and have a working PB workspace right away without having to generate PBLs via orcascript. This is obviously more convenient than previous solutions. But the PBLs will only become more outdated over time unless you update them on the repo on a regular basis. Might not be a problem at all but could well be, in the long run. Especially if the master branch is protected and can't be directly pushed to.
@Armeen it's good to see that GIT support is being improved upon. Keep in mind that merging branches into master might happen outside of PB, though. Like for merge requests with code review.
You are lucky.