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Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling
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Rustom Mody |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling |
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Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:21:50 +0530 |
Sorry for the earlier mail: Send got pressed on a half-cooked mail :-)
Heres a cleanup.
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Build-tools like scons rethink make's "older timestamp => rebuild"
model. You may want to look at one such.
>From http://www.scons.org/architecture/index.html
> (S)Cons decides if a file was out-of-date by using MD5 checksums of the
> contents of
> files, not timestamps.
SCons also comes to mind because you are using make for R not
(traditional) programming
[Again from the above link]
> Most of the build tools just mentioned were written by programmers and for
> programmers.
....
> (SCons arose from a)
> design contest with the express goal of producing a set of next-generation
> utilities,
> including a build tool, that would be accessible not only to programmers but
> also to
> computer users such as physical scientists.
[Disclaimer: Ive not tried Scons myself]
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, (continued)
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/18
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Holger Hoefling, 2011/11/18
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/18
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Holger Hoefling, 2011/11/19
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Holger Hoefling, 2011/11/19
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Allen S. Rout, 2011/11/22
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/22
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, cberry, 2011/11/19
Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Achim Gratz, 2011/11/18
Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling, Rustom Mody, 2011/11/19
- Re: [O] Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling,
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