From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,629e11b80bdec45d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-16 06:50:18 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!62.112.0.25!newsfeed.online.be!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!newsfeed.planete.net!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:34:21 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9dtvkv$f99$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9drct2$gpq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 990020063 15657 136.170.200.133 (16 May 2001 13:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2001 13:34:23 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7561 Date: 2001-05-16T13:34:23+00:00 List-Id: How it is done is going to depend on the tools you have to do configuration management and change control. In the particular instance I was talking about, we had a home-grown tool with a relational database that kept (among other things) a change request form. The change request had associated details that pointed to the specific files modified. By proper queries on the database, one could find all the files associated with a change or all the changes associated with a file. It seems you are suggesting some version of hyperlinking a document to a source code file. I know of no systems built around that sort of technology. If all it amounted to was an attached collection of comments, it might not be especially useful. Better than filling the code with so much garbage that you can no longer clearly see what the code is doing. Not quite as useful as a full-up cross reference capability one might get with an appropriate CM/CC system. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Anders Wirzenius" wrote in message news:JTpM6.28$R_3.2813@read2.inet.fi... > Agree. The form of the attachement is also then an established standardised > form (XML?) which may be read forwards and backwards by a CM tool to achieve > the historical moment of the code you want to dig out. > To put history lines as comment lines within the code is a poor mans > standardised solution. >