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On 2/28/2011 10:36 AM, Invisible wrote:
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> Damn. Given that compiling something is approximately 80,000x faster
> than writing it... how freaking long did it take to write?! O_O
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The software has been around for years. It's a code-base that has
evolved over time, never really restarted from scratch, so it probably
has a lot of historical code in it. Also, keep in mind no just a single
person works on the code base.
>>> 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.)
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>> True. We tend to use the GUI front-end for our RCS software, though. ;)
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> I'm sure even that has hooks for customisation buried within it somewhere.
Probably, no one has been very motivated to dig that far.
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~Mike
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