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On 03/15/2018 07:52 PM, Shark8 wrote:
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> This is one reason I advocate a DB-based solution rather than an FS-based solution; after all, the FS solution *IS* simply using the FS as an ad-hoc and anemic database, and using the timestamp-field this way is essentially analogous to querying a 'time' column when what we *REALLY* want is a 'version' column (not "1.2.3" but more like "build # X").

This is somewhat similar to the "program library" required by Ada 83 (ARM-83 10.4).

http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-10-04.html#10.4

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Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
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