Re: How to manage LedgerSMB modifications.

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:53 AM,  <..hidden..> wrote:
> I have a question regarding the management of modifications made in
> LedgerSMB.  I am interested in knowing how others manage their
> modifications in light of future upgrades.  For example, we have made some
> minor modifications to pos.pl, ct.pl, and ic.pl placed in the "custom"
> directory.  Currently, if we have an upgrade I have to manually copy over
> my modifications over to the new upgraded files.  I include comments so
> that I can more easily find my modifications, but wanted to see what
> others do and if there is a better way of handling this.  Obviously, if
> the upgrade does not include any changes to the specific files that I have
> modified then I don't need to worry about going through these steps.  Just
> upgrade as normal.  Not sure though how to verify which exact files have
> been touched in the upgraded code in order to to determine if I need to
> upgrade my modified files in the "custom" directory.

Just place modified functions in the custom directory.  They overwrite
functions in the distributed versions.

Note that this is asking for headaches in the future, and 1.3 will
make this process much easier for new or rewritten areas.

Hope this helps,
Chris Travers

>
> On a unrelated note, what IDE's do folks use for their perl development?

vim, bash, and Perl.  I suppose "integrated" is in the eye of the beholder.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers