Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/26/11:31:38
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:04:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com wrote:
> ~40bytes * >1600modules ~~ >64K call it 80K? IFF you include the entire
I got bashed more than once for adding much less (circa 5K) to a function
that gets linked into every DJGPP program. So much for perspective and
scale.
> You do the exercise, I already have in order to convince 250 programmers here
> at Bloomberg! The savings in headache and debugging to track the fact that
> someone forgot to add the new version of module 'X' to the library before
> linking or forgot to move the latest executable to production is worth almost
> any overhead!
Cool down, in our case only a single person (DJ) releases the library.
Anybody else (like me) who patches their own version, does so on their
own responsibility (and yes, I have my private version management
procedures too).
OK, I'm cool. I guess my prospective has been skewed by the 110MB executables
we build around here and the large development teams.
At any rate 'we' could add Version strings to the utility and tool code lines,
though most of that comes from FSF, AARRGGHH. Oh well it was a nice thought.
Unless we can convince FSF to introduce the version strings in tool code?!
--
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it. -- John Keats
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