Re: Source code control & revision numbers

In <E5x7wF.6r7@nonexistent.com> Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> writes: >At my place, we want to enhance the way we do source code control. This >is with an eye toward including the module name and revision number in >all error messages. We are using Fourgen as our development environment >and are calling a library function which eventually calls errlog(). We >are currently using RCS for source code control. >In every [blessed] 4GL source module in our application, we have >commented lines that look like: ># $RCSfile: main.4gl,v $ ># $Date: 1996/08/01 18:21:47 $ ># $Revision: 1.1 $ >Is there any way in 4GL that we might use these string values in >variables? We'd like to be able to pass this to the error-handling >routines. Would another source-code control program make this possible? In the past I've used sytax (in SCCS) similar to; LET g_version = "@(#)%I%" ... ... WHENEVER ERROR CALL error_log(g_version) When the source is committed, the SCCS string is replaced by the delta number LET g_version = "1.17" and error_log() can write it out. The module name can be done similarly with %M%. No guarantees on syntax (I suffer from memory leak just like all the good programming environments), but you get the idea. Bryan Tonnet batonnet@zeta.org.au