Re: CONS specs update?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:01:40PM +0200, Vaclav Barta wrote:
> On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:26 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> > Ideally, though, I'd prefer to treat them as separate steps. I don't
> > like the idea of a file modified in-place (i.e., processingtool.pl
> > reads in abc.c and writes a modified version replacing abc.c).
> Then prepare to build across directories - there are steps (adding
> a key to a .NET DLL, for example) which *must not* change the name of the 
> file.
[...]

What could be done in this case is to always build the DLL from
scratch whenever it is to be updated. (We then consider adding all the
keys as a single step.) I don't see how this is different from
building .a or .so libraries; those formats also support incremental
updates, but (currently) the plan is to always rebuild them from
scratch for the sake of build reproducibility.


T

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