I think I failed to get #2 accross, which is the main thing:
not amount of K or if it's attachemnt or wiki.
There is no need to modify an existing (system) file.
Instead, all the changed definitions are collected
in a small separate file, which is loaded at
startup.

The advantages: it's small, it's visible what's
changed, it's manageable.

Suppose, another user made a different set of enhancements
to the jijs.ijs file: in your scenario we would have
two different changed files. How would we go about that?


BTW, the enhancement to enable labs of PocketPC is 
a great idea. Running labs in that environment is a 
convenient and useful thing.


--- Jose Mario Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > On Behalf Of Oleg Kobchenko
> > 
> > --- Jose Mario Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Oh well, the file appeared properly attached in my Outlook 'Sent Items'
> > but not so in the
> > > forum's version (any advise would be welcome).
> > ... (~1000 more lines of code)
> > 
> > 1. For amount of code of this magnitude, it's better to post to
> >    Wiki rather than mail list. Note, pending JAL shortly,
> >    that would be even better.
> > 
> > 2. For the case of modification of a larger library--I doubt that
> >    every single line of the original code was changed--it's better
> >    to release a "patch" which is loaded on top of existing library.
> >    Besides size advantage, it will also be instantly visible,
> >    what were the changes.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the advice.  I cut and pasted the file because I wanted to
> provide a virtually ready to use file that would allow a forum member to run
> the labs on a PocketPC without the need to get involved in details (if so
> desired) and I implicitly assumed, perhaps wrongly, that in the age of Gmail
> a 60+K email was not a big issue.  Besides, I do not know yet how to 'wiki'
> and I do not know how to generate a patch that would automatically produce a
> useable patched file either.  How do you do that?
> 
> It seems, given your response, the lack of other responses, and a quick
> glance to recent messages, that files cannot possibly be attached to forum
> messages anymore; I was not aware of that. At any rate, I would be willing
> to e-mail the modified IJJS.IJS upon request.



 
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