Re: dependency scanner

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>>> In short I am *NOT IMPRESSED* with Java's ability to manage large 
>>> projects,   In a way this is the same issue recursive make has 
>>> http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
>>
>> Funny, I don't remember anyone claiming that Java is a 
>> project-management system.  I thought it was a programming language.  
>> Do you blame C for not having the features of make, I wonder?
> 
> C does at least has a trivial way to find depends (#include)

Huh?  What does #include have to do with managing object file
dependencies?

If you recompile foo.c and bar.o depends on foo.o, nothing in C is going
to 
help you figure that one out, via #include or otherwise.  You need make
for that.

#include is a *pre*-processing step; it happens before the compilation
even 
looks at the source code.  There is no equivalent in Java.  The 'im****t' 
directive does not include anything at all; it just helps the compiler
with 
name resolution.

-- 
Lew