RE: RPG400-L Digest, Vol 2, Issue 38

No, really, I'd not claim that Unix-like is bad.  Honest.  I'm a student in
the unix environment, but it's not what I use in my daily professional life.
Clearly, my lack of very-large-scale-development (Vendor software, whatever)
leaves me an incomplete understanding of the problems you are trying to
solve (or ease) with TMKMAKE.  I just haven't seen any problems with the
native binding methodologies addressed by binding directories.  I think I'll
just drop it, as it doesn't seem to be applicable to my environment.....

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863


>  I freely admit my lack of experience in "unstable
> environments" as you describe, so I may just not understand what you're
> saying. However, I still can't see how TMKMAKE makes things better, only
how
> it makes it more "Unix-like".  Perhaps that's an advantage to some, but
not
> for me.  Sorry if I'm just being dense......

I know it'll be heresey for me to say this, but "UNIX-Like" doesn't 
always equal "bad".  There are a lot of good things that I've grown to 
appreciate on Unix systems over the course of the last 10 years since 
I've been working with them.  One of them is the concept of a .lib 
file... which is analgous to a service program, which we both agree are 
good things (in a very non-Martha Stewart like way).

The hardest part of using make is actually learning how the stupid make 
scripts work.  Nightmare.  Bad ones are nearly as arcane as RPG code 
riddled with left-hand indicators, CABxx, and ITER...LEAVE blocks <grin>.

The point is, that TMKMAKE is an often-overlooked tool that can do 
wonders for a big-scale project that has rapid development turnover.

-Doc



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