[ANN] bzr 2.4b3 has gone gold

vila v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr
Fri May 27 13:04:54 UTC 2011


>>>>> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:

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    > Vincent, I'm sorry to say that, but idea of "handling the
    > dependencies" with make is too fragile to be used seriously.

You'd have to come with better argumentation to convince me here

    > You can define chain of commands that depends on each other, but
    > you can't actually define robust dependencies between source files
    > and build product, just because make looks only on difference in
    > timestamps.

And when is that failing ?

    > In my practice it leads to unusable situations on big projects
    > when you have to do every time

    > make clean build

IME, this is only needed when there are bugs in Makefiles.

     Vincent



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