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Re: pictures at tracker
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sat, 18 May 2002 10:27:19 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford writes:
But we already know exactly when an image needs updating! Using make, you
still have to decide when to execute the make command, I'm saying the
obvious time to do it is when a file is submitted (update it's image and all
those which depend on it). You already have all the dependencies, and you
already know when an image needs updating, why do you need make?

I have to disagree: we don't 'know' exactly when an image needs updating.
We have the information needed to figure out which image(s) need updating,
but it's in a form that still needs to be sorted through.  Sorting through
it isn't too hard, but it's still not trivial.  It would be  much less work,
even from where we are, to spit out some make-style dependency files, and
let make do the work.

What format are the current dependency files in, and when are they updated?

ROSCO



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  Re: pictures at tracker
 
(...) They're in a tab-delimited text file, each line contains a super-to-subfile dependency, the status of the subfile - official, unofficial, or not found, and the title of the subfile. Like this: parts/3001.dat p/stud.dat official Stud The code (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: pictures at tracker
 
(...) I have to disagree: we don't 'know' exactly when an image needs updating. We have the information needed to figure out which image(s) need updating, but it's in a form that still needs to be sorted through. Sorting through it isn't too hard, (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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