I respect this. Although, native ACD file manipulation is something that is possible with free tools as well. I'm even more confident that with future releases of Logix Designer as we've been talking about, we'll get even more SDK features which will let us do ACD manipulations for the future.
By maskware, I meant to provide a different gui to already existing systems. My tutorial above itself is a maskware, to use git-extensions and integrate that with other tools. The goal is to save time and enable programmers for sure, I just don't like the idea of paying for something that can be done for free.
Now, I don't have a solution for Siemens yet, apart from using their multiuser server, or making the project directory a git directory. I don't have an auto-build feature with them yet either. But there is advantage in making it open platform, so some future or current reader can built on our current success and scale bigger mountains, so we can avoid being bottlenecked by the team at *****, or any other company that makes stuff which can be easily done for free.
If ***** does Diff/Merge better than the rockwell tool, that's great! If they provide their difftool at a cost, I'm down to use that with git as well! As a CI/CD platform, they will need to convince me a little more
Regards,
-PreLC
