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From: wilson@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Nathan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: File management
Message-ID: <6337@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 88 07:57:10 GMT
Reply-To: wilson@csli.UUCP (Nathan Wilson)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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I'm working on a pascal project in MPW which is slowly getting larger
and larger and was wondering how people manage their files.  What size
limits do people usually work with?  Do you ever have more than one
segments worth of code in a file?  How many source code files do you
work with?  I personally start getting nervous if my files get much
more that 25k and never have more than one segment in a file.  Also
I've noticed that my file dependency tree as described in my make file
is quite tall and not very bushy.  I have a belief that bushy is
better and many small independent files is better than fewer large
files.  Is this belief correct and if so what rules of thumb do people
use to avoid creeping monolithism?  Also I've been wondering for
awhile now if there is a way to avoid the dreaded
recompilation-of-everything-in-sight when you change something at the
bottom of the tree that is important but doesn't change the interface
part of the file.  Finally, I also have a vague memory of someone
mentioning a limit on the number of files that can be linked at once.
Is this true?
	Thanks in advance,
		Nathan Wilson