From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c35edbbda4c7f58f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Conditional compilation in Ada? From: Jim Rogers References: <1100632383.66582@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1100636869.12000@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:49:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.181.152 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1100648997 12.73.181.152 (Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:49:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:49:57 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6237 Date: 2004-11-16T23:49:57+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote in news:1100636869.12000 @master.nyc.kbcfp.com: > tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>>The OP is running two separate programs. >> >> I beg to quibble. > > Well, here's what he said: > "I am developing two applications which are very similar > and share the same source code. The only difference is > a small change in a fundamental data structure." > If these are indeed two different applications demonstrating significant code reuse, then the proper answer is found in a configuration-managed build system rather than in conditional compilation. Jim Rogers