[bind10-dev] bug in Encode/Decode stuff

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4DB48F6D.6000506 at gis.net>, Danny Mayer writes:
> On 4/24/2011 2:03 PM, Francis Dupont wrote:
> >> I haven't used VS 2010 yet though I doubt that it's very different. It's
> >> msbuild in VS 2005 which is what I used for BIND9. From the BuildAll.bat
> >> batch file:
> >>
> >> msbuild BINDBuild.sln
> >>
> >> I'm sure it exists also in 2008 though I don't have that near me at the
> >> moment to check.
> > 
> > => on the VM I use (win2008build on virt1) VS 2005 and VS C++ 2010 Express
> > have msbuild but not VS 2008? But it doesn't matter to have to use
> > the GUI (command line are for old generations :-).
> > 
> 
> Well why do we stick to 80 columns for the code? Punch cards haven't
> been around for quite a few years! :)

Because human factors say ~80 columns is easy to read and process.
Human factors havn't changed in the last 3000 years.  If you look
at books most of them have ~80 characters per line.  Punch cards
have 80 columns because that how humans like to work.

> There are at least 3 reasons for having build scripts. In order of
> importance:
> 
> 1) build and test automation
> 2) release builds
> 3) so that the person who wants to build from source can do it without
> having to understand how to use the GUI.
> 
> Danny
> 
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