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From: Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:35:13 +0000
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On 14/03/2025 21:15, bart wrote:
> On 14/03/2025 19:37, Richard Harnden wrote:
>> On 14/03/2025 19:04, bart wrote:
>>> After all no one (according to you) was complaining about grappling 
>>> with 100 discrete files.
>>
>> 100 discrete files helps 100 developers not to step on each other's toes.
>>
>> And most of those 100 .o's won't need to be recompiled on every make.
>> It's quicker and easier.
>>
> 
> That may be true about the people who /develop/ this sqlite3 product.
> 
> But this is a file created to ease deployment by people who want to / 
> use/ it.

This is a newsgroup populated by developers.

Users won't be going anywhere near a compiler - they'll get shipped the 
binary.

> 
> I don't know why nobody in this group can grasp that concept even though 
> I've explained it a hundred times. For example, I have a transpiler 
> product that turns a 50-module project in my language into a single, 
> easy-to-build C source file.
> 
> But everyone makes the same point about it being hard to manage. No one 
> is even going to look inside it!