Configuration/version management

[Bertrand Meyer]

The topic of built-in support for configuration management within EiffelStudio comes up regularly. So far the internal view has been that each organization has its own approach to configuration management and that we don’t want to be imposing a particular method or tool. That point was made long ago by Roger Osmond in particular. Things have changed and the industry is converging on specific solutions. Any suggestion as to how much support you would expect from EiffelStudio here, and of what kind, is welcome.

 

-- BM

[Saša Janiška]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 11:39:01 +0200
Bertrand Meyer <Bertran...@inf.ethz.ch>
wrote:

When you say 'configuration management' do you mean just EiffelStudio settings
or some support for external build systems (like SCons as mentioned in other
threads)?

As far as version management is concerned, I'm aware that Git is everywhere,
but for my own projects I use Fossil exclusively which I find interesting in
regard to the "Source & Generated Files in an RDBMS and (optionally) Compile
directly from database" wish mentioned here:

https://dev.eiffel.com/EiffelStudio_Wish_List


Sincerely,
Saša

--
The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna,
that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man
of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them.

[Bertrand Meyer]

Build is not particularly a problem as far as I can tell. Eiffel is simple in that respect.

More a hook to a version management system such as Git.

-- BM

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[Larry Rix]

Bertrand,

I am not aware if the GitHub Desktop product has an external API that is consistent, but if it does, then I would suggestion some sort of configuration option that would allow ES to "wake up" a tool that knows how to interact with this API and then present some basics in the Eiffel Studio GUI. I would love to tell ES to allow me to make my check-in title-and-comments and then both save to my local repo and push to GitHub on the internet like I do already with the Desktop tool they make.

Larry