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PFC-OS

PFC-OS. The open source project for PowerBuilder Foundation Class Libraries. What is PFC?. PowerBuilder Foundation Class Libraries were introduced with PB5 Bug fixes and support for new controls have appeared in all subsequent releases Major functionality was added in PB6

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PFC-OS

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  1. PFC-OS The open source project for PowerBuilder Foundation Class Libraries

  2. What is PFC? • PowerBuilder Foundation Class Libraries were introduced with PB5 • Bug fixes and support for new controls have appeared in all subsequent releases • Major functionality was added in PB6 • Has been available only with Professional and Enterprise only

  3. What does making PFC an open source project mean to me? • Empowerment to the PowerBuilder community • Active effort to enhance and expand the PFC will occur in the hands of the PowerBuilder community • Meritocracy • Community members rise in privileges based on quantity and quality of their contributions • License terms • Doesn’t mean source code needs to be distributed • PFC needs to be acknowledged • Link needs to be provided to PFC

  4. Levels of Participation – User • Requires registration in CodeXchange • Download ZIP of PBLs, help files, etc…

  5. Levels of Participation – Contributor • Previous level, plus… • Register for Observer role in the PFC project on CodeXchange • Project Leaders approve • Enter bug reports and enhancement proposals • Vote on bug reports and enhancement proposals • Submit patches • Need to be approved by Project Leaders • Read-only access to version control repository • “Suggest” files • “Suggestions” need to be approved by Project Leaders before they become public • “Suggest” news items • Sign up for mailing list • Receive news of releases and other updates

  6. Levels of Participation – Developer • Previous level, plus… • Collaborative Developer role in the PFC project on CodeXchange is assigned by Project Leaders • Check in/out code • Check out any version

  7. Levels of Participation – Project Leaders • Previous level, plus… • Assigned by Project Leaders • Status change and close issues • Finalize release goals and contents • Maintain project web site • Approve role requests • Approve/create news items

  8. PFC-OS Start Up Project Leaders • Alex Whitney • Originator and former manager of the PFC development team at Sybase • Boris Gasin • Authors of the McGraw-Hill book: "PowerBuilder Foundation Class Professional Reference“ • Web-master for the PFCGuide.com web site • Bruce Armstrong • Senior editor for the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal • Co-editor and contributing author for "PowerBuilder 9: Advanced Client/Server Development" by SAMS • Web-master of the teamsybase.com and teamsybase.net sites • Terry Voth • Author of PBL Peeper • web-master of the Techo-Kitten.com web site

  9. PFC-OS Roadmap • Poll the community to get list of potential new features or expansion of existing features • Get current open bug list from Sybase • Possibilities • Adopting new PowerBuilder features • Compatibility of other PowerBuilder technologies • Bridge to using non-PowerBuilder technologies • Looser coupling (string-based class reference) • Messaging service (publish and subscribe on the client) • Wrapper to implement server push (JMS messaging) between PowerBuilder app and EAServer components

  10. What is available today? • PFC that came with PB10 for today • Back versions • PB8 and PB9’s PFC are available in an up to date form (with respect to bug fixes) with their respective latest maintenance release from Sybase • Developers are free under the license to back migrate PFC-OS themselves • Back migrations are not expected to be an easy process • Features and functions may be introduced that are incompatible with previous versions • http://pfc.codexchange.sybase.com

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