<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz" target="_blank">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 25/02/16 10:29 pm, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:<br>
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If the compiler is supposed to read the archive, then you mean that the source files should be packed in one?<br>
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"Should" is up to the programmer. What I'm advocating is "could".<span class=""><br>
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I can see the use for beam files to be distributed this way, but I'm not sure about sources - if they are supposed to get edited, then we have to unpack them anyway;<br>
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Well, if it comes to that, there's no reason why the *editor* couldn't work out of<br>
a zip file. Try this: I get the Erlang/OTP sources, and I love that, and I *could*<br>
edit them if I needed to. Indeed, on very rare occasions I have. But most of<br>
the time I *don't* edit them. Or to put it another way, I have a project in another<br>
language. Out of nearly 1800 files, nearly 45 of them have been changed in<br>
the last week. That's one file out of 40. Why should 39 files be<br>
just so I can edit 1 out of 40?<br>
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Even now, if you want to edit a file, you have to unpack IT, not THEM.<br>
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Then too, there are lots of things one can do with source files besides compile<br>
and edit them.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see your point. For me a directory is easier to work with than an archive, when it comes to source code, but it's just me.</div><div><br></div><div>regards, </div><div>vlad</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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if not, then beams are just as good.<br>
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I explicitly indicated that OASES files might point to things other than modules.<br>
I believe it to already be the case that people are allowed to put other things<br>
than modules in .ez files.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Or am I missing something?<br>
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best regards,<br>
Vlad<br>
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