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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:47:34 +0000
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On 14/03/2025 21:35, Richard Harnden wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but in this example, they're developers working on their own 
product, who want to incorporate somebody else's project as source code.

Then 1 or 2 files will be hell of a lot easier than 100 files in some 
arbitrary directory tree.

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

Why not? Apparently all they have to is type 'make'.