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Original Message From "chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>

>Oh yes, no point going down the _feature bloat_ route.  Another point on
>"features" is not to ram them down the developers throat.  I get annoyed with
>some IDEs that make you use a project to compile toy programs.  Anyone else 
get
>annoyed at this?

Oh yes! Reminds me on Delphi. I simply didn't get a two modules plus test 
program project to compile properly... Maybe, I'm just too stupid, but in 
the 
end I saw me writing a good ol' make file of ten lines (seven if you don't 
count the blank ones). *That* worked perfectly.


Vinzent.