Quoting Shawn Harrison <harrison@tbc.net>:
> Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote [01/11/05 2:44 PM]:
>> Steven H @ orcon wrote:
>>
>>> So basically your wanting a way to manage all the vba source code behind
>>> your access application?
>>>
>>> The only real achievable way of doing this would be to somehow 'export' the
>>> source from access (copy & paste into text files) and have SVN manage those
>>> exported files.
>>
>>
>> Yikes! Cut'n'paste... Glad I'm not using Access!
>> Yes, I don't know #"€)(/% about Access...
>>
>
> Well, it's not quite that bad, but almost. You can export the files in
> the file menu in MS Office applications, but yes, all the code is kept
> in binary (though not compiled) form in the database / Word template /
> Excel file / whatever. Pain in the rear.
>
> Subversion is almost useless for this, because you can never directly do
> a diff. If you want to compare the code in two versions of a MS Office
> file, you have to export from both of them.
>
> My work-around: I've got VBA scripts to export all the source from a
> given MS Office file, to a src directory. Then I can version that, and
> do diffs to see what's changed. Still a pain in the rear, but AFAIK it's
> the best you can do on that platform.
>
> A better solution: Get a different work platform if at all possible.
> Much better to work in Python, for a host of reasons, if you can. For
> that matter, much better to use PostgreSQL, for a host of similar
> reasons, if you can. But I'm getting WAY off topic.... (my LAMP = Linux
> Apache mod_python PostgreSQL).
>
> I guess the connection is that some people are in a Windows shop (the
> tools, not just the OS), for any number of reasons, but they still need
> to find a way to make use of version control. I guess there's a niche
> business market for someone....
>
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Does the latest version of Access have a save as XML file like Word and Excel
have? In that case you could store the XML file in Subversion, after removing
all the non-application level data from data database of course. It wouldn't
be as clean as using seperate files, but it would work better then versioning
the binary files.
-Andy Brummer
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Received on Tue Jan 11 23:20:32 2005