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What Is PowerGen?

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What Is PowerGen?

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Since its first release, PowerGen has been focused exclusively on automating the build process for PowerBuilder applications. First released for PowerBuilder v4, it has allowed for a consistent build methodology through all succeeding PB versions. However, in addition to this function, we are using the export function of the product for all PowerBuilder objects since we store the exported flat files of the PowerBuilder objects in Harvest for source code management of PowerBuilder objects. We use HarPB as the check out/check-in interface for the flat files export/import. PowerGen has two major functions. The first is producing PB deliverables from PBLs. To do this it offers regeneration, PBD and DLL creation, and EXE creation. To support the users’ complete automation requirements it also includes copy, import, export, and optimize functions. With a separate utility VersionEdit, delivered with PowerGen, it can also modify version resource information. The second major function is produc