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From: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question Re: Configuration Management
Message-ID: <244@sortac.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 12:02:52 GMT
References: <188@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <213@ritcv.UUCP>
Reply-To: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan)
Organization: AT&T Southern Region, Atlanta
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Keywords: configuration management, software design

In article <213@ritcv.UUCP> mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Michael Lutz) writes:
 >The issue is one of packaging based on abstract interfaces ...
 >     a unified abstraction ... *should* be in one file.
I agree.

 >The library contains object modules, possibly with multiple entry points,
 >and if you reference one you get them all.
                                  ^^^^^^^^
This is true, but the statement is not entirely clear: if you reference
one of the entry points in an *OBJECT*, even if you just refer to a global
variable declared in an object, you get the entire object.  You do not
automatically get all the objects in the library (archive).
This is one more reason to limit the contents of an object to only those
that are tightly related.

 >Mike Lutz ...rutgers!rochester!ritcv!mjl

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