Appeon announced that PowerBuilder 2017 R2 (scheduled for January 2018) will directly call GIT and SVN's native APIs (instead of MSSCCI). PowerBuilder will provide native interface options in PowerBuilder for the following source control systems: Subversion (SVN) and Git.
The native interface of the source control systems is used (instead of MSSCCI), eliminating the need and dependency on third-party plug-ins. The PowerBuilder PBLs still remain as binary libraries in the PowerBuilder IDE. When a PowerBuilder workspace is uploaded to the SVN or Git server, a project is created for the workspace. The structure of the project in the server (as well as in the local repository) is almost the same as the one in PowerBuilder IDE, except that the actual .PBL files are not uploaded to the project. Instead, a sub folder is created in the project for each PBL, and the sub folder contains all the source files of the corresponding PBL. All the commonly-used SVN/Git commands will be supported, including Connect to Workspace (equivalent to Checkout in SVN and Clone in Git), Add to Source Control, Commit, Revert, Update (SVN), Pull (Git), Push (Git), Delete, Copy and Move. Installation of an SVN/Git client is purely optional, but doing so may provide additional source control management features that benefits your project, for example branching and merging.
