>>> Our flagship CAD and engineering app
>>> where I work takes a good 30-45min to do a full build.
>>
>> How huge is it? o_O
>>
>
> Its big. I forget how big, exactly, but there's a lot of code for
> handling engineering, performing the CAD drawing, rendering the
> building, etc... Not to mention all of the UI glue, database handling,
> and other bits and pieces here and there.

Damn. Given that compiling something is approximately 80,000x faster 
than writing it... how freaking long did it take to write?! O_O

>> Well, you can script that from outside. (That is, you have a check-in
>> tool that runs whatever tests you want, and then executes the actual RCS
>> command to check stuff in.)
>
> True. We tend to use the GUI front-end for our RCS software, though. ;)

I'm sure even that has hooks for customisation buried within it somewhere.

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