use make and version control system for every project?

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Mon Oct 6 09:03:46 EDT 2003


Jorge Godoy <godoy at metalab.unc.edu> writes:

> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
[...]
> CVS also solves problems of identifying what is the little thing that
> you changed and made your program stop running the way it should. 

So does diff.

I tried CVS for personal work and found it more pain that it was
worth.  I can believe other VC systems are sufficiently better to make
it worthwhile, though (moving directories around).


[...]
> With regards to make, I believe that distutils would be its
> equivalent in pythonia. It is somewhat unintuitive in some things, but

Not really -- scons is the equivalent.


John




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