[AccessD] Access and source control

[Bill Benson]

Not only that but I believe on startup especially during development period
I would have an auto exec or hidden startup form that runs some code and
adds the current file to a new or as an incremental file to a compressed
folder with code readily available on the net.
On Jan 23, 2016 4:56 AM, "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gustav,
>
> I do the same, and I guess most or all of us do. And that's fine insofar as
> only one developer is working on a project at any given time. It would be
> nice to be able to have a team of developers working on a project, each
> member checking out a few objects and all other developers seeing that
> those have been checked out. You and I could thus work simultaneously on
> different aspects of Project X, then check our objects back in, and if
> anything screws up, then we could roll back just that object while
> preserving the changes that were successful.
>
> That's one of the many reasons that I'm so taken with Alpha Anywhere. It
> stores objects in a granular fashion; any given project might consist of
> hundreds of files of various types -- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, A5W
> (proprietary), text files, Xbasic modules and function libraries, and
> images. The core of the project is a database similar to the database
> window in older versions of Access, containing pointers to the actual files
> (stored in subdirectories of the project) rather than the files themselves.
> This setup makes proper version control a breeze, and ideal for project
> develoment by a team.
>
> /Arthur
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Arthur
> >
> > Neither can I. And even if you could, it would be faster and safer to
> > restore the complete file from a zipped copy. That's what I do - zip a
> > backup whenever I have done - or plan to start - some major changes. The
> > zip gets the current timestamp as part of the filename. Takes very little
> > time.
> >
> > /gustav
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