I think Ric got something here. I have a few personal experience with this.
The most recent one (and is typical of my support operations) is that there was some change in data structure in a factory in China and I'm in the Philippines. So I connected through VPN using a 128kbps 4G (Wi-Max) connection and used VNC to remote control the server. I used PM a lot and I have a lot of small files which are "compiled" to one huge IJS file. I know which source file that is needed to be changed but I've deployed the "compiled" IJS file and I just need to change a few characters. The connection was so slow that pressing page down means 1 to 5 minutes of idle time. Searching for the offending script doesn't work since its a common enough code. In the end, I just asked them (client) to email the distributed IJS file, Just to be safe, I modified my repository copy and complied and compare it with the production code then sent it back with instruction to overwrite their copy. In this instance, being able to fold the distributed file by the source file name would have saved a few of my hair. :P ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherlock, Ric [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:42 PM To: Beta forum Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Script sections/chapters > From: bill lam > Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:33 > > Втр, 01 Июн 2010, Sherlock Ric писал(а): > > I like J's Projects mostly because it enables me to work on smaller > > files, but then distribute them as one bigger file. The main reason > > I like this is because it saves me scrolling up and down one big > > file while I'm developing. Instead I'm able to quickly jump to the > > bit I'm interested in because I've separated it into its own section > > (source file) with an appropriate name. > > I guess this is personal preference. I just like big source files, > eg, when I initially wrote the tara package, it was just a single big > script of all locales without using project manager. Chris is on the > opposite end of spectrum, he prefers one project for one locale. Right, and my suggestion of supporting Sections is about combining the advantages of both. One big source file, but easily navigable. This means that potentially everyone is happy using the same files. Unless there are other advantages to small files that I'm not aware of? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
