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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Compiling with MPW Projector - Is this obvious??
Keywords: MPW Projector compile
Message-ID: <796@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 88 13:43:12 GMT
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In article <21917@apple.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, Architect) writes:
>In MPW Projector, the concept of a project is different from that of 

	Thanks for the explanation; it would be too easy if the project
database also tracked file interfaces. Then I might have a reason to use
MPW! ;-)

	But seriously, folks...

>Lightspeed Pascal.  The LSP Project contains information on the 
>project parameters (creator, type, debugging on, etc), links to the actual
>text files, and contain compiled code as well.  There is, however no 
>historical information stored in LSP Project files.

	Right. The project doument also contains information about the
interface parts of Pascal source files, so that the compilations can be
based on which INTERFACES have changed, rather than on the modification date
of the file.

>With Lightspeed Pascal, unless you are specifically backing up your 
>project file, you will be SOL. (sorta outta luck).  The purpose of Lightspeed
>Pascal (and C) Project files is to eliminate the need for makefiles.  There
>is no source code control provided.

	Indeed! Supplied with version 2.0 of Lightspeed Pascal is a utility
(which I wrote :-)) called "BackupProject", which will perform backups of
Lightspeed Pascal (or LightspeedC) project documents, with associated sources.
This only works in Lightspeed Pascal version 2.0 projects, because in
these projects BackupProject can store enough information to do a pseudo-
incremental backup. BackupProject also backs up LightspeedC 3.0 projects, but
incremental backups aren't possible.

		--Rich



Rich Siegel
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