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"Ed Mulroy" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> wrote in message 
news:433038dc@newsgroups.borland.com...
> That should put the list of files into a temporary file (typically 
> make@@@@.000) and temporary files used for redirection have no inherent 
> limit on the number of file names as they are not command line limited. 
> I have used the "@&&|" many times but never in exactly this way so check 
> if I am right on how make.exe will handle it.

Thank you for this info.

> It seems that I am always amazed by others' preferences.  If I had to 
> quote a job with either XML or make file syntax as the input, my quote 
> for XML would be much higher to reflect the extra work I felt it 
> required.

I think that the XML would be easier because I'd use TurboPower's 
XMLPartner component set to parse the XML for me, making that almost no 
work at all. However, I'd probably either have to find makefile parsing 
code somewhere, or figure it out myself, so that is why I think it'd be 
more difficult.

> The advantage of handling the project file yourself is that you then have 
> the opportunity to handle frequently seen problem cases such as
>  pathname\" >
> ,situations where the paths are so long they choke the IDE's build and 
> cases where BCB6 builds reference VCL4.LIB (or whatever the name is) 
> carried over by converting a project instead of recreating it when the 
> user installs a new version.

Another problem I have is that I don't have BCB5+, only BCB4. So XML work 
for me is just about theoretical.

Jonathan