RE: ILE philosophy

I see your point here about make being useful but it doesn't relate to ILE
as the original topic discusses.  If you stay away from bind by copy then I
don't see ILE needing the make capability that you describe but it would be
nice for the other things you mention.  Of course, there are third-party
tools that cover this very well :)

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:19 AM
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: ILE philosophy
>
>
> The real power of make is not just compiling things, it is recognizing
> dependencies and building only those things that need to be built.
> Programs rely on data files, printer files, screen files, service
> programs, etc.  If you change a printer file you need to recompile the
> associated program(s) to avoid a level check.  make tracks
> this for you.
> Instead of using CRTPRTF you would use make.  make would compile the
> printer file and then automatically recompile those programs
> that depend
> on the printer file.  A CL program just isn't the same thing.
>