Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!s1!jrk
From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
Message-ID: <334@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jan 89 10:20:29 GMT
References: <322@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <24218@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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In article <24218@apple.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron Han) writes:
>In article <322@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
>>2.  I *like* Lightspeed's automatic make feature, as opposed to composing
>>makefiles by hand in MPW, 
> 
>You can use the "Create Build Commands" item from the Build menu.

True, but it's rather primitive, isn't it?  I only invoke "Create Build
Commands" to make an initial draft of a makefile, then add the features that
that command doesnt understand.  E.g. dependency on .h files and .r (Rez
input) files - the Commando dialog's "Files" button wont let me select
anything but .c files.  And separate compilation - "Create Build Commands"
just generates a single command to compile all the selected files at once
(as far as I can remember...I tend now to use old makefiles as prototypes
for new ones rather than using the menu command).

Thanks to all who responded to my query about building resources under
LightspeedC, including one person who has offered to send me ResTools,
a resource compiler application more-or-less Rez-compatible.  I'll see
how LSC + ResTools compares with MPW.

Ah, but if only LSC had an MPW-ish command interface!
If only MPW had LSC-ish project files and precompilation!
Something for both to consider for their next versions?  (If they can avoid
each other's copyright suits :-)
-- 
Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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