On 4/23/2011 9:42, Darren New wrote:
> So I stick in a file with the name "manifest", say "compile
> this with the manifest processor".

Oh, and if there's parameters specific to that compile (like, whether to 
compress images or something), they're represented as properties with an 
attribute set (basically, in the "javabean" kind of sense), and the build 
system looks at the executable after it's built in order to give the GUI a 
mechanism to prompt for which parameters need to be changed. It then records 
those parameters into the build file again in XML, and passes them to the 
processor when it recompiles anything in that dependency chain.

Overall, a very cool system. It just takes a bit of cooperation from the 
compiler to make it all work seamlessly.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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