using a mac with linux and filepro

[Walter Vaughan]

John Esak wrote:

> C'mon Walter, you've spent more on software this year than you have in the
> past 20??  Which software and why? 

Apache Open for Business http://ofbiz.apache.org
Opentaps http://www.opensourcestrategies.com

For training, customizations, and technical support.

> If you're not interested in software that costs money... why do you
> constantly read and write things in this list, which is about filePro? 

Uh, it's been a part of my daily life for a long time. I've given myself 
deadlines to stop reading this list, and seem to fail. Once we decommission our 
main filePro apps in a few weeks maybe I should. Its a hard habit to break. :)
I'm still writing/editing tools to migrate our data from filePro into PosgreSQL 
tables.

<topic drift>

I did have an idea that could make your accounting app work in a method that 
would allow for you to keep improving it, and yet allow developers to make 
changes to their systems and not break things.

We've had the same problem with our java based ERP. We've funded improvements 
into projects and we would just download a new copy. But then it got to stuff 
that only we really need and wouldn't apply to anyone else. But we also didn't 
want to create an ERP that couldn't be sync'ed back up and would become 
basically frozen in time.

We also have 3 developers and keeping track of what box had the master copy and 
moving tar files around just asks for redoing stuff over and over again.

All along we'd been downloading the source code from the parent projects via svn.

So we worked with (paid) someone who was helped us to setup an SVK repository. 
SVK is a tool that acts as both a svn client and svn server. So we can pull down 
the laterst svn (they call it smerging!) from the parent project, and our 
internal people syncronize with our local repository.

I guess since I've not worked in a version control system before, but it seemed 
like magic in that it really worked. I know who changed what file and when, and 
can get diffs, roll back... our developers can quickly build patches for the 
parent project or commit local changes and everything works.

And the first place ourside of our internal needs I thought of was the problem 
that was discussed a few weeks ago on the filepro list with your accounting system.

Cheers!

--
Walter