CVS for Oracle forms (fmb)

[Haitham Hamad]

I am thinking of setting up a version control environment for a set of Oracle forms (.fmb) and reports (.rdf). I thought to start with CVS (Any better ideas are welcome). I am not sure where to get the software and how to go about it. Our forms and reports are stored on a HP-UX 11i server and developers are accessing them from windows so the HP-UX is acting as a storage and mount point in the windows environment using Samba and CIFS/9000.
For the developers to check in and check out the modules, I need to give them a windows GUI (something like wincvs? others? applications?

Any directions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
H

[Steven E. Protter]

I have thought about this as well.

There is a problem.

PVCS works really well. Its moderately priced and will work even for developers in a pc environment so long as the application directories are accessible via samba mounts.

We currently do our oracle forms and reports development on the pc. That environment is totally managed with version control by Merant PVCS. One of the items on my volumous list of projects is to integrate PVCS so it can control versions on the HP-9000 Server environment.

The other issue is compilation.

PVCS is not smart enough to know how to compile modules developed in a windows environment on the Unix Server. We have to create a compilation script and another special script to check dependencies and recompile librares and other shared objects when required.

So its fun and a challenge, but we think we can adapt PVCS to meet most of our needs.

http://www.merant.com
I own no stock, nor do I have anything but a pleasant business relationship with this firm.

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[Haitham Hamad]

Thanks, I wanted to check if cvs will work with a unix version on the server side and use a windows GUI to perform the check in and checkout. I don't have the authority to spend much money on such a tool.