After over a decade of not touching UO/Pol I recently performed an upgrade of our server's distro scripts from POL95 to POL99 (Or latest build as of April-2016).
I thought I would write down my experience in case anyone else in the future was to do the same and ran into one of these problems.
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Neat! I was thinking about doing something like this and I am delighted you beat me to it! I will be using it.
Visual studio code really is a great app for editing pol scripts and hooking up build tasks for compiling and running.

I will check it out.