OpenEuphoria

Re: Improvement that Everybody Will Agree With: Versioning

• Posted by Alan Oxley <fizzpop at axemail.co.za> Jan 12, 2007
• 614 views

Ok, let me get the bounty idea rolling.
I'll send $50 via paypal to whoever creates a nice function for confirming
includes via CRC. It needs to be a built in function, platform independant.

-- instead of
include get.e
include /home/alano/euphoria/includes/get.e
include "c:\\dir withspace\\myincludes\\get.e"
-- you could have
chk_include("get.e",12345678) 
chk_include("/home/alano/euphoria/includes/get.e",12345678)
chk_include("c:\\dir withspace\\myincludes\\get.e",12345678)
-- and the interpreter will halt with a trappable error message
-- if the 12345678 checksum is incorrect.

IMHO, exactly where a included file came from is important mostly because
you want you have the expected include only. The other reason is to include
the correct libraries when packaging your app. The version, date, author
etc of the included file is a nice to have (IMHO) because thats just there
 mostly to know which file you have included - now covered by the check.

Anybody interested in the admittedly paltry $50 can contact me at 
alan dot oxley at alindigo dot com.
Any senior/knowledgeable list member wanna be the judge?

Regards
Alan