Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:04:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
Cc: x-aes AT telelogic DOT se, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: less quirks, dies in win95 dos window..
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com wrote:

> ~40bytes * >1600modules ~~ >64K call it 80K?  IFF you include the entire

I got bashed more than once for adding much less (circa 5K) to a function 
that gets linked into every DJGPP program.  So much for perspective and 
scale.

> You do the exercise, I already have in order to convince 250 programmers here
> at Bloomberg!  The savings in headache and debugging to track the fact that
> someone forgot to add the new version of module 'X' to the library before
> linking or forgot to move the latest executable to production is worth almost
> any overhead!

Cool down, in our case only a single person (DJ) releases the library.  
Anybody else (like me) who patches their own version, does so on their 
own responsibility (and yes, I have my private version management
procedures too).