On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Kevin Hunter wrote:
>> But these probably won't be significant as long as you're
>> not talking billions and billions of resources :-).
>
> No, some thousands. My ("newbie") thought was that any penalty like that
> would be paid when the app was installed (these are all being bound into the
> app, not a separate resource database), and then not on subsequent hotsyncs,
And also when the app gets backed up, assuming you set the backup bit.
But that ought to be only once too.
> I can already see where that path makes for a far more manageable "make"
> system than generating all the .bin files, since I don't have to back and
> twiddle my makefile if the ID's of my resources change.
That was indeed the reasoning behind -ro, and I'm glad someone has
noticed :-).
"One source file produces one corresponding output file" fits make's
model much better than does "one source file produces perhaps dozens
(or thousands!) of output files whose number and even filenames vary
depending on the contents of the source file".
And it fits humans' "tidiness in the working directory" model better
too.
John
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