Archive - Apr 29, 2006
Incremental build scratch pad
Book page: Submitted by erikh on Sat, 2006-04-29 17:51. Last updated on Mon, 2006-05-01 18:43.
This scratch pad for the Incremental builds main page. Like a Wikipedia discussion tab, this page accumlates notes for the design.
2006-4-29 erikh
Maybe pointing out the obvious, incremental builds of plain-old Java can be managed by comparing the timestamp on the source and compiled file only because the runtime JVM handles the integration.
Unless we have a viewer that can provide equivalent integration at runtime, DITA XML modules have to integrate at build time. That integration has to resolve:
2006-4-29 erikh
Maybe pointing out the obvious, incremental builds of plain-old Java can be managed by comparing the timestamp on the source and compiled file only because the runtime JVM handles the integration.
Unless we have a viewer that can provide equivalent integration at runtime, DITA XML modules have to integrate at build time. That integration has to resolve:
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