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Steve, I share that frustration. Using "Settings" to turn off Store "Use New Compare Tool" helps gets closer to earlier comparison browsers, but even those have problems. The browsers lack useful menu options. You can see differences, but you
end up doing a lot of copy-paste searching to find and modify code. The BundleDifferenceBrowser is the window you miss; however it is gone. VW 7.7.1 still has the ability to browse changes in a single package with the older (feature rich) browsers. You may
have to add a menu option to get to those older browsers though. The 7.7.1 comparison browsers are nice that they provide a package grouping (something that I'd asked for); however, not the way it is implemented. The groupings are too much "in your face" requiring you to click on many things just
to find a few changes. This is the kind of view I'd offered as an example.
This is the code browser used for GemKit to browse/maintain GemStone code from VW. As you can see, it also is written to do a fair job with code from Store (because I could). It is fast. It provides a dynamic view (the left filter column
disappears if there aren't meaningful groups to select). Just today I was porting it to VW 7.7.1 and enhancing it to make it more suited to take the place of the new VW 7.7.1 browsers that we find frustrating. I'm not saying that these browsers are an ideal replacement (they weren't intended to be); however, they are useful and demonstrate a browser design that I'd hoped Cincom would adopt. If you are interested in trying this browser than
you can find it in the Cincom Public Repository. I'll post the latest version (GbcManagement 4.0 018.0) shortly. The latest version has changes to make it compatible with VW 7.7.1 but is still early in testing. Paul Baumann -----Original Message----- Hello, I'm a Software Developer& Configuration Manager at Rudolph Technologies, formerly Adventa. We are in the process of porting one of our product lines to 7.7.1 (almost finished porting to 7.7 when 7.7.1 became available). We have several hundred bundles and in those bundles nearly a thousand packages. We produce many types of images with each of our product builds, most of which have a common set of bundles, and then a unique set on top of that. We also produce a single image that contains the entire code base (codebase image). All of these images make up the framework-product and are subsequently all delivered. This product is a framework. Since our customers do development on-top of our framework, it is imperative we CM the entire code base we deliver, therefore we capture each image's bundle set into a special 'image bundle' and publish that back to store as well as save this off in the image. Also, the entire code base set of bundles is captured into a larger bundle within our full codebase image (a transport mechanism used to deliver the source code). In most of our typical bundles there are 1 to 6 packages . Some bundles contain a dozen packages and a few contain 20 or so packages. None of our typical bundles have subbundles. Our special 'image level' bundles (which are generated with each formal build) contain only a large set of subbundles. An 'image level' bundle captures the bundles which were loaded to produce the image. This bundle is a configuration record for the image. Here's what should be a clearer picture: Image1 bundle BaseBundle (actually many) ToolsBundle UIBundle + other bundles Image2 Bundle BaseBundle (actually many) ToolsBundle IOBundle + other bundles Codebase Bundle BaseBundle ToolsBundle UIBundle IOBundle Image1 bundle ... Image2 bundle ... This is very simplistic, but you should get the picture. Ok... hopefully that was understandable, now on to my problem.... How can I compare our large image-level bundles using the new diff browser??? This was easily do-able in 7.7 and before. I saw a similar thing discussed on the thread "vw7.7.1 New Style UI". Can we PLEASE get back (and keep) a bundle difference tool that produces nothing but a list of differing things the bundle contains, and no additional details below that? A UI that has drill down capability, similar to what we had before? Even comparing a bundle that has a dozen or more packages with many changes is not do-able using the new differences browser... consider an image level bundle with several hundred packages and subbundles. Is there a way to toggle on the "Old Style Difference Browsers" somewhere? If we must keep only the new differences browsers, is there a way to toggle on-off the level of details (such as bundle level, package level, class level and then method level)? Thanks much, -Steve _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc This message may contain confidential information and is intended for specific recipients unless explicitly noted otherwise. If you have reason to believe you are not an intended recipient of this message, please delete it and notify the sender. This message may not represent the opinion of IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (ICE), its subsidiaries or affiliates, and does not constitute a contract or guarantee. Unencrypted electronic mail is not secure and the recipient of this message is expected to provide safeguards from viruses and pursue alternate means of communication where privacy or a binding message is desired. _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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