hi IOhannes, hi Guilherme, hi list,
[warning: potential holy war]
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Bryan Jurish wrote:
hi Guilherme,
On 9 January 2003 at 01:25:09, Guilherme Carvalho wrote:
And a real newbie question: once I have the dll's and stuff in the right places, can I safely get rid of the .c, .h, etc. files? This is just to clean up my folders.
deleting .c and .h files should not cause your externals to crash.
yes indeed, but maybe it's a bad idea to "clean up folders" in such manner
mfg.a.sr. IOhannes
not to antagonize, but i was just trying to give as honest an answer as possible to Guilherme's question. AFAIK there are plenty of reasons _not_ to delete the source -- in my case because I may want it later as a reference or as a basis for something else I'm building; or just in case I want to rebuild the external with the spiffy new whiz-bang super-optimizing C-compiler...
nonetheless, the externals shouldn't stop working if you delete (or move) the sources -- i for one like my sources in 'src', my libraries in 'lib', my programs in 'bin', ... and my externs in 'externs'...
all of this goes out the window as soon as we start talking about patches or non-compiled data distributed with an external, but i don't really want to go there right now.
peace, love, and marmosets, Bryan