Re: chopping Ada source that have preprocessor symbols in them

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> (And the use of a preprocessor is always suboptimal. It's much better
> to have that managed as part of version control, by selecting files
> specifically for particular targets -- but I've never seen a version
> control system that does that properly -- they all assume the use of
> preprocessors.  For RRS, I built a front-end that adds such structure
> to the versioning (CVS is the back-end), but it's pretty clunky and
> never was turned into a product.)

How would you do that in version control?

Personally I like the style used with the GNAT project files, where you
select different implementation variants with a parameter to the build
system.

I guess you would like to be able to select a "branch" with a specific
implementation variant _and_ at the same time select a (different)
"branch" of all the invariant parts of the system.

Now that I think about it, you could do that by having a subrepository
containing the implementation variants in different branches.

Greetings,

Jacob
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