gnupic: Re: [gnupic] gplink and .lst files
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] gplink and .lst files
From:
Craig Franklin ####@####.####
Date:
30 Mar 2006 02:49:11 +0100
Message-Id: <442B3A81.6050008@users.sourceforge.net>
Chris Emerson wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:57:53PM -0600, Craig Franklin wrote:
>
>
>>George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote:
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>>> 2. gplink deletes the xxx.lst file even if it is not writing one
>>>itself.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>gpasm deletes xxx.lst files even if it is not writing one too.
>>
>>Here is the problem with your scheme: I compile my project with the
>>list file enabled. Then later suppress the list file output and keep
>>building the project. The list file won't match any of the current
>>outputs. This is confusing at a minimum.
>>
>>
>
>IMHO, it's much more surprising a tool silently deleting a file without
>asking, especially if you've asked it to suppress touching that file.
>Couldn't it just print a message instead, eg "Warning: foo.lst exists
>and is out of date"?
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>
Understand how you feel, but I think this case is a little different.
The assumption is the gputils is thing that normally would generate the
file. So it deleting something it would normally overwrite isn't as bad
as deleting any old file in the directory.
>Regards,
>
>Chris
>
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