Re: refactoring when using CVS

[Noel Yap]

--- Paul Sander <address@hidden> wrote:
> >--- Forwarded mail from address@hidden
> >If you have all of your source in one big pile, you
> can do a "javac *.java"
> >and things should sort themselves out.
> 
> Unfortunately, if this is what your build procedure
> consists of, then
> you lose traceability between your sources and
> shippables, and you can't
> assess the impact of any change you make to your
> source code.  That makes
> it really really hard to accomplish the common task
> of shipping minimal
> patches when bugs are found in the product.

More than that, you'd need to worry much more about
naming conventions to keep things organised and avoid
name clashes.

Noel

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