OpenEuphoria

Re: private include files

• Posted by OtterDad <otter at full-moon.com> Oct 14, 2004
• 418 views

<Soapbox begins>
I, for one, applaud Rob's, Derek's and all other coders who insist on 
backwards-compatible code changes. I write commercial applications for 
a very large company. Some code that I wrote years ago is still in use 
today. It gets very frustrating to go back into older code and make a 
minor change only to find out that an update to library xyz now makes 
me debug what was perfectly good code yesterday. I got so frustrated 
that whenever I deploy a program I also catalog every single included 
file along with the program source. This turns a 4k program file into 
a 2 Meg archive. At least this way I know I have the exact copy of all 
code needed to make it work in the future.
<Soapbox ends>

Yours, OtterDad

Don't sweat it -- it's not real life. It's only ones and zeroes. Gene Spafford