Wim Gielis wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:17 am
Should it not be changed by IBM, then I can see a number of consequences:
- editing a PRO file directly in a text editor and rebooting TM1 becomes a very risky undertaking
Although I sometimes live life on the edge in the way a lot of old school admins do, I have to admit that I don't think I've ever done that. Not in production, anyway. In the pre-Arc days I used to edit in Notepad++, but I'd always copy the code to a dev server and made sure that it compiled before copying and pasting to production. Of course the down side of that is that this only allows you to edit code, not variables, parameters or default data sources the way you could if you directly edit the text file as mentioned above.
Way back in the day I was trying (not very seriously, I admit) to create my own TI editor with the (classic) API. But while that API allowed me to do a lot of amazingly cool things (albeit usually with clenched teeth and beads of sweat dripping from my brow waiting for the next crash), the API commands relating to updating TI processes seemed to be a little bit too finicky and esoteric (and possibly not fully documented; what a surprise
that would be) for me to be able to do it reliably. I ended up giving up.
In both cases (hacking the text files and using the classic API) there were too many moving parts for me to feel comfortable with so I chose not to go down those paths and live with a combination of Notepad++ and the Editorsaurus.
Wim Gielis wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:17 am
- when upgrading to those newer versions and using Architect, one should be absolutely sure that all processes are correct with respect to syntax.
Two very important messages if you ask me.
Or the third one, more people will buy Arc and see their blood pressure drop by 30 basis points. (Yes, I know that I keep banging on about Arc but it is just SO. GOOD.)
But yes, I agree, to me anything that gratuitously destroys peoples' work, regardless of how good the intentions, needs to be addressed.
Now for a slight tangential deviation from subject, but it's amusing anyway. I was looking up some information about PowerShell profiles (specifically altering the console display) and I came across this:
Some guy on the Interwebz wrote:There are no words to describe how much I hate what Microsoft did here. I am working on a VM, it is past midnight and the standard color scheme is very difficult to read. For some ridiculous trendy reason, the background on PowerShell is black.
(NB: This is about PowerShell Core, not classic PowerShell .Net which is of course blue.)
Some guy on the Interwebz wrote:
I went in and changed the text to black and the background to white. i did this in Default and Properties. Well, because of the syntax highlighting, my color changes did not do what I think any reasonable person would expect. The background did become white, but the text was yellow and it was even harder to read.
I found you very informative article and surprise, surprise, Microsoft provides a great deal of customizability, but not through their GUI. It is very hard to type the commands when I can't read what I am typing.
A bit like a company that expects you to go faffing around in command lines and manually editing text files in 2021, but let's not name names. The funny part was this reply, though it wasn't intended to be:
Some OTHER guy on the Interwebz wrote:
In the upcoming new world, it will be less relevant whether people hate a vendor for such things, because they typically don't care --
{Sucks air through teeth...} Yeah, that sounds oddly familiar...
Some OTHER guy on the Interwebz wrote:
instead, they will be financially liable for the wasted time users encounter when standard instructions no longer work.
BWAAAAH-HA-HA-HA!!!! You're talking cr@p kid; that world will never exist. But
{insert dream sequence optical effect here} imagine if it did. I'd never have to work a day again in my life, all on IBM's dime... You'll all be invited (not all at once, of course) to my 40 bedroom palazzo in the countryside of Lazio, with my 40 acres of olive trees, 4 Olympic sized swimming pools and
{calculates the amount that IBM owes me...} personal health spa with 20 massage therapists and 10 spa baths.