DBASE vs. PARAM
The following discussion from !3530 (merged) should be addressed:
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@graven started a discussion: (+2 comments) But this raises another question (not for this MR): are these files really different from what we nowadays put in
PARAM/ParamFiles
? And if not, should we then not unify things and put thecdf
directory into there as well, and access them usingParamFileSvc
instead of relying on${FIELDMAPROOT}
? And then when we start deployingParamFiles
as a git repo, we can also better version the.cdf
files...
Given that historically the difference between PARAM and DBASE was whether version control was used or not, and we're about to introduce version control for PARAM, the question arises whether we still have to distinguish between them, or whether we can unify the two...