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Fiware Cepheus home page says that its branch is archived and 'read only' now.
https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/fiware-cepheus
So does it mean:
1. There would be no future support and development in this community?
2. As alternative we should use 'Perseo' as its similar in functionality
https://perseo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
In general, archiving a GitHub project means that "the project is no longer actively maintained.https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-archiving-repositories
The Fiware Cepheus page also states that "no new features will be added, nor issues fixed by the original team." So this means option 1 is the answer to your question.
There exists 21 forks of this project, so perhaps the community is moving over to one of those?
I am not familiar with 'Perseo', so I cannot tell you if option 2 is a good solution or not.
Yes, further information can be found in the FIWARE 7.4 Release Note
As announced at the Porto Global Summit 2018, five generic enablers
were placed under analysis and have subsequently been removed:
Proton, 3D-UI, FiVES, Cepheus, Aeron IoT Broker
Perseo is the now the
preferred generic enabler for complex event processing, replacing
Proton and Cepheus. 3D-UI. FiVES and Aeron are no longer seen to be a
good fit with the FIWARE project.
If you want to use Complex Event Processing you are left with two choices:
Convert your project to use Perseo and continue to enjoy community support and development.
Continue to use an archived CEP processor, fork it and make further bug fixes on your own.
I have installed the Zeos 7 Beta on my own machine but it fails on my client's laptop. We're both running Delphi xe2, his is Entreprise, mine is Pro. His machine is running 64-bit windows 7, mine is running Window 7 32-bit.
When I do Compile all on ZeosDbo or ProjectGoup16 it seems to get through ZCore.dpk but then shows 2 fatal errors:
ZCore.dpk(1) E2225 Never-build package 'ZCore' must be recompiled
ZParseSQL.dpk(33) E2202 Required package 'ZCore' not found
This is production code we are working on, so I hope we can find a solution and get back to working on this
Zeos forum thread: http://zeos.firmos.at/viewtopic.php?t=3633
That is one error, the 1st one. The second is merely post-effect.
Perhaps you can do better than downloading beta ZIPs: until they have mature release you just can download each day "nightly" changes by version-control tools, like Git or SVN or whatever Zeos team is using.
Such errors are usually quickly fixed (they are simple) but long released(they are so moot that no one would bother making release for them).
Just open http://zeos.firmos.at/portal.php and read where to get most instant updates and how to report problems.
Actually - there it is, http://svn.code.sf.net/p/zeoslib/code-0/trunk/
Install TortoiseSVN and be on the edge until 7.0.1 or 7.0.2 final release
The page also says: Please report bugs for this version to our brand new bugtracker on sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/p/zeoslib/tickets/
Please do. Open Source is about participating. At least participate by registering bugs.
About the essence of problem read official documentation and "See Also" section.
Someone should decide about package binary update strategy. And the decision should be kept for all packages (okay, you can mix it in some conditions, but that is not to be suggested). So basically you have three choices:
Make your own decision and put all Zeos packages into the strategy of your choice. That puts the responsibility upon yourself to maintain this fork for a while until you come back to vanilla ZeosDB.
Report the bug to ZeosDB team and ask their suggestion, then change those settings for all the packages as suggested by them.
Report the bug to ZeosDB team and wait until they'd fix it in their SVN and then do SVN Update.
Personally i'd go with 1 option, but i am ready to be FLOSS libraries co-developer.
Option 3 would be the most slow yet the most easy for you.
Option 2... well... i can not see why you should choose that, except for trying to avoid version controls at any cost, which is bad idea per se.
I also suggest you to read http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
That would help you effectively communicate at ZeosDB forums - and you'd have to if you want to be "on the edge" (and if you do not - then wait for public release like 7.0.2).
I have used Symfony 1.4 since it's release, but I now have the option to upgrade to Symfony2 for my next project. Does anyone have any experience? Is anybody currently building a production app on Symfony2 or have in the past few months?
EDIT: yes, Symfony2 website has been put up with a clear message saying the framework will be released tomorrow! There is no 'beta talk' but it does clearly state on the installation page that you should use 1.4 for new projects.
EDIT: somebody voted to close because this question is apparently 'too localized'. Is that not what tags are for?!
Symfony2 should be released in March and I'm guessing it should be in the next few days. The Preview Release always had a note next to it that it is not ready for production. I cannot tell how much is that really true and how much is that just the usual "beta talk".
If you've noticed, they changed the symfony2 page that now doesn't go to the preview page but to the symfony.com instead. Also some new tutorial(s) came up. And the download page shows a promising "Will be available tomorrow" message!
I tried out playing around with the symfony2 sandbox but before porting my application to it, I've decided to wait for the release version. If your project is not pressing, I'd suggest the same. Should be around the corner.
Just my two cents ;)
EDIT: Btw, if you look in the blog, you can see that
The public API of Symfony2 will be
frozen in just a few days. Therefore,
this week developers committed some of
the last big impact changes to the
code repository: the Response was
removed from DIC, CompatAssetsBundle
was removed in favor of AsseticBundle,
and the boostrap files were also
removed.
This can only mean a stable version out soon!
I would say yes, as long as you're aware that it's a preview release and take the necessary precaution i.e. keeping an eye on the error logs.
There are alot of sites using symfony2 in production including the VPS control panel at ServerGrove and OpenSky (developed by the creator and main contributor to doctrine orm and odm projects).
The Release Candidate comes this month sometime, which signifies the API becoming stable! Hooray!
This link from the Symfony2 blog outlines the road map for the Symfony2 release.
There's also the Symfony2 Bundles site which is a collection of bundles that already exist for Symfony2
They said it will be available soon.
But you already can download it from github and start learning it and migrating to it. I've been doing that since December last year and the only problem was changes in API. But now it must be more stable and it's safe to migrate to it.
The 'is not ready for production' note meant no support and no guarantees that everything works and tomorrow something won't change. And if it changes, it was your problem to find out what and how.
While the original plan was to release a stable release candidate last week around the Symfony Live conference in Paris, it was announced there that it would be delayed for what I guess should be at least a couple of more weeks, which I agree is a good thing.
That means that the API is not stable yet and might change, and that those changes might break BC. The standard package which is now available for download on the new website is a PR like the previous releases were.
Searching with '[Delphi] "source control"' didn't return much, so here goes: For those of you Delphi programmers working on your own, what source control do you like? I know about TortoiseSVN (which can be used without a server), but I'd like to know if there are better options before choosing it.
Thank you.
SVN will be more than enough as you'll mostly use it for backing up and diff'ing versions.
You can use VisualSVN Server and TortoiseSVN with Delphi IDE Integration. All of these are freeware. If you wish to use any other freeware SCM with Delphi IDE integration you'll need to buy SourceConneXion or Athlant. Also, if you're using D2009 you'll need to convert strings to ansistrings in order to get TortoiseSVN addon for delphi to work.
I use Mercurial, and have used Bazaar and Perforce (free for small teams). All are good, but nowadays I tend to prefer Mercurial. Mercurial comes with its own tortoise
which, while not quite as polished as TortoiseSVN, is perfectly usable:
(source: sourceforge.net)
For users of RAD Studio XE or XE2, Uwe Schuster has published an IDE add-on called Version Insight Plus that adds Mercurial and Git support to the IDE's built in version control support.
For all the systems I have mentioned, no central server is required.
I would recommend Git which is free & open source and:
Doesn't require you to even set a central server even if you want add more developers or machines.
Is Extremely Fast (imo)
Encourages the use of branches
I use it for almost every new project, even when it's just me on the project. It's an extremely fast distributed version control system and was written by Linus Torvalds and is now used in high profile projects like the Linux Kernel and Ruby on Rails.
Git isn't hard to use from the Command line but also has it's own "Tortoise" package (TortoiseGit - albeit not as polished as it's SVN cousin).
SourceGear Vault is free for a single user. I like to use the external client because I work in different environments, but If you want Delphi IDE integration, you can use Source ConneXion (not free).
You might look at some of the responses here (Stack Overflow) if you do have Delphi in mind. As mentioned in the answers there, I use Team Coherence which integrates very nicely with Delphi's IDE, and is aware of Delphi file groups (.pas with .dfm etc). I think it's written in Delphi too.
Having said that, the other comments already made are true - you shouldn't really let your choice of language dictate your choice of VCS.
Even though you've said single user, I would look for a solution that allows you to easily host it on a server/other desktop machine, so you have separated your development machine from your source repository. I'm probably teaching granny to suck eggs but you ought to check that whatever you choose can be easily backed-up too (even to a USB key or external drive would be fine). :-)
I know you have asked for Source Control, but if you are always planning to be a 'single developer' you might like to consider an automatic backup solution like AJC Active Backup instead. Yes, you lose the ability to check in and out specific versions, but at the same time you avoid the need to check stuff in and out all the time when it is only you working on a project. And you can recover or diff any previous source files by date for as far back as you care to configure. It's very much a set-and-forget solution, until you need to recover something, when it is invaluable. And the archive itself can be backed up in the normal way.
I use TortoiseSVN, but store my repositories as files on my laptop (on a share that can be accessed by mutilple VMs), not managed by a server. This means that I have full access to the repository regardless of server access, but also allows me to easily backup the repositories to the company file server when connected.
Since I am the only programmer I have not needed a separate server so far. I have seen Nick Hodges (Delphi Development Manager) say very nice things about VisualSVN Server, and I aim to check this out, to see how easy it is to backup/restore the repository: if that can be automated, and done very quickly, then I will probably adopt that.
Longer term I am going to look at the various flavours of distributed VCS, as that may be better suited to multiple laptop-based developers; I'm not sure yet, as I've not reached that page of my to-do list ;-)
One of the things supposedly in the pipeline for Delphi is integrated support for VCS. I've no details on that, or on any implications for current users of the various traditional or distributed VCS.
The language you use doesn't really matter in the choice of the SCM you will use.
It can matter if your favorite IDE supports or not this SCM.
TortoiseSVN is just a svn client, if you choose svn you can have several client.
I use Tortoise, and subclipse for committing in the same svn repository.
I would suggest using SVN server on a separate machine (either VisualSVN as suggested before or CollabNET Subversion Server) and TortoiseSVN with JVCL integration expert (also as suggested before).
Besides getting all the good stuff from the version control, you'll also automatically have backup on a different computer, which is always a good thing.
I know this will get down voted, but I feel it has to be said.
I've used Version Control software for many years at my job, and it is required when multiple people work together - to make absolutely sure that no two people overwrite one-another's work.
But for my personal development at home I don't use one. I find them overbearing and inconvenient for a simple one-person project. And I've tried several packages including Source Gear Vault and some others that other people have mentioned.
What I do instead is at every significant change to my program that I might want to go back to, I make a copy of the entire program directory. If I screw up in the next change, I can go back to the copied directory.
I also permanently keep copies of all my directories of every release of my program. If I ever need to do comparisons between my current version and previous releases, or between two different previous releases, I use Beyond Compare by Scooter Software - a simply great tool for diff-ing and copying changes between versions. If you use Source Control software, Beyond Compare will integrate into it nicely.
So I mention this simply because I have often heard everyone pushing Version Control Software, even for the individual developer. For some of us, it's overkill.
You may want to consider this simpler solution.
I use Bazaar with Delphi and it works well, especially for solo developer workflows. It has it's own TortoiseBzr but it isn't as good as some of its cousins so I recommnend the excellent Bazaar Explorer instead. One of the great things about Bazaar is it's flexibility and the ease with which you can change workflow or include another developer in a project that started off solo.
A lot of articles about Bazaar will tell you it is a lot slower than Git or Mercurial. They are out of date, now it takes a similar time to acomplish operations as they do and is faster on some operations.
My team use StarTeam and I have never used something else like SVN so it is hard for me to do a good compare. Starteam has both positive and negative sides.
Pros:
You can register Change requests and
connect them to checkins. This make
changes more trackable.
I feel more comfortable with a real GUI compared to commandline or some Shell
extension.
Cons:
Expensive, as most products from
Borland...
Latest version use Java. It is almost like the previous Win32 version and they have added more features, but I still feel that it is some slower and more memory hungry than before.
GUI could be a bit more intuitive.
I'm not big on version control, but use SVN/Tortoise and am quite happy with it. The main benefits that I see for a single developer is being able check out older versions of the application, and use multiple computers for development (desktop / laptop) - other than the obvious backup benefit. I tend to not need it for diffing files, as I find the version control tools within the Delphi IDE fairly good for this - provided the "bug" was introduced recently.
I think most Delphi developers use SVN/Tortoise (making it a fairly safe choice) - but there are trendyer options such as Mercurial and Git.
As a single developer, I have used Perforce for a number of years. It has been great. Aside from a CLI, you can use the P4V client. There's also an explorer plugin available, as well as Delphi IDE integration. I actually just found this free integration on Torry yesterday:
p4delphi
I've installed it in Delphi 2010, and it works pretty good.
Perforce is free for two user, it would require you to install perforce server, but the server footprint is very, very small. you can use P4V (Perforce visual client) which is far more convenient than tortoise, it also provide Windows explorer extension to be have just as tortoise (but you could skip this installation). Delphi integration could be done using P4Delphi.
I am using subversion, bug tracking and simple to use project planning for my latest delphi project from an web service provider. http://www.unfuddle.com has a free account for projects less than 200mb with 1-2 developers and the user interface is easy to use.
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does anyone have a good idea for what I might use ?
Its not specific to Delphi but SVN is the way to go for version control.
server - subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)
windows client - TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/)
I use Team Coherence, from QSC. This integrates nicely into Delphi (I think the standalone desktop client app itself is written in Delphi too) and it can be used over a network/the web etc.
I'm a 'lone developer' who uses it to get to my source code wherever I am. It does all the obvious source control stuff pretty well (versioning, history, comparisons), and I'm happy with it.
It's not free, but if you want something that really does plug into the Delphi IDE, and that 'understands' Delphi sourcecode and projects (for instance, checking out a form is a single operation - .DFM and .PAS are intelligently linked together in the mind of TC), then it's worth a look. I'm quite happy with it.
All version control systems should work just fine for you. You do not need a specific version control system for Delphi, or any language for that matter.
Some ideas:
Subversion (Central and simple to install and learn)
Mercurial (Distributed and easy to learn)
Git (Distributed; best for Linux, not Windows; does everything)
I have moved away from VSS to Subversion with Tsvn, you can look previous question I asked about replacing the VSS for better VCS with Delphi Moving away from VSS.
And to make the moving to Subversion easy, use VisualSvn server, which is very easy to install and work with.
The good thing about moving to Subversion that next Delphi version will include support to it from inside the IDE.
I use subversion with the jedi integration. I wrote a series of posts on using subversion with Delphi:
http://sourceitsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/07/starting-out-with-delphi-and-subversion.html
http://sourceitsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/07/subversion-server-options.html
http://sourceitsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/07/common-tasks-with-subversion.html
http://sourceitsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/08/subversion-add-ins-for-delphi.html
I would like to recommend Plastic SCM. We used Team Coherance before, but due to multiple reasons (slow, bugs, etc) we have chosen for Plastic SCM: http://www.codicesoftware.com/xpfront.aspx
Very good support (email reaction mostly within 1 hour!) and it has fabulous branch and merging support! Task driven parallel development with multiple developers works much better than traditional version systems like TC, CVS, etc.
I'd recommend a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System). I'm not going to give a specific one to avoid potential flaming, but the big ones are Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar, all of which are quite good.
These allow you the benefit of working offline and working from any computer, while still maintaining version history.
Also, since it's distributed, you don't need some central server, so if a computer crashes, you're still good to go.
Here is a good article about DVCS vs traditional VCS (such as SVN).
First, don't choose your version control system primarily on the level of integration with the IDE!
Subversion, as many have said, is pretty much the de-facto standard for modern version control software.
Personally I just use TortoiseSvn, and don't worry about integration into the IDE.
If you want integration into the IDE, look at SourceConnexion from Epocalipse. They have a D2009 version.
Codegear have hinted that SVN integration could well be in the next release of delphi anyway.
As an earlier poster mentioned Team Coherence, I thought I would add some comments based on my experience of it.
I used Team Coherence (TC) as part of a small team of three to four people for two years, and then we swapped to AccuRev. I would say that for a single developer with simple version control requirements TC would be OK, especially if they use Delphi.
However, (amongst other things) we needed to be able to:
Support mainline development whilst also keeping a release branch for urgent customer bug fixes.
Link items in our bug-tracking system with sets of checked-in changes ("change-set tracking").
We found that using TC to do branching was very confusing. It is much easier to support our branching requirements with AccuRev.
In addition TC didn't support grouping checkins into change-sets, and so it couldn't really fulfil requirement 2.
However, AccuRev is more expensive than TC. Subversion is free, and seems to support branching very well, but as I have only used it for very small projects at home I will leave it to others more experienced with it to recommend it or not.
In short, if you need to support multiple branches, or change-set tracking I would not recommend TC. If, however, your version control requirements are simple (check-in, check-out, version differencing) and you use Delphi, then TC may be an appropriate choice.
The company I work for uses Vault but would I advise it? Well, it's better than VSS that we used before.
We combine this with SourceConneXion which is a Delphi IDE plugin and which supports several source control products, including Vault, Subversion, CVS and whatever else you might think of.
Since we're developing in both Delphi and .NET, these products work quite well for my organisation.
Btw, if you're a single developer and only want one license then Vault is free!
We are using since two years JediVCS (part of the Jedi Proyject). It's stable and work outside the IDE (standalone application) or Integrated with the Delphi IDE.
Work with a lot of servers:
DBISAM 3.x
FlashFiler 2.13 (Open Source version)
Firebird 1.0x, 1.5x, 1.5x embedded (with support for characterset configuration)
Oracle 8.x, 9.x, 10.x
MSSQL 7, 8, 2000 (with both supported security models ("Trusted NT security" or "SQL
based")
MySQL 3.23x, 4.0x, 4.1x
NOTE: Here you can see a video of installation process, the integration with Delphi IDE, Check-in and Check-out files process...
Regards.
Try Plastic SCM together with SourceConneXion integration.
Take a look at the following posts here:
http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2008/06/branching-and-merging-with-delphi-part.html
http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2008/06/branching-and-merging-with-delphi-part_02.html
Actually it is a very strong combination since Delphi is probably the greatest IDE/language combination for most tasks, and Plastic the strongest for parallel development.
If you are a single developer, then Perforce is a good choice. It's free for 1 or 2 developers. You can use the command line or the gui (P4V) which makes it pretty easy. I've used it for a few years now, and even when I had an issue with it about a year ago, their support was great, treated me like a paying customer, which I'm not. It's easy to set-up, and there's plenty of documentation. It also integrates into other applications like Teamcity and Jira/Fisheye.
Just my 2 cents.
Tortoise SVN
Complicated at first but very reliable