Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> Paul, I'd think that your needs (which certainly overlap with
> mine...) could be met by adopting Ali's suggestion in that report
> of a single message with parameter to indicate which platform was
> being built for, if there was an additional parameter to indicate
> that several standalones were being built at
> once. Even if it was as crude as:
>    savingStandalone  "Windows", 1, 3
>    savingStandalone  "iOS", 2, 3
>    savingStandalone  "Android", 3, 3
>
> That would allow work to be done for the general case to be coded
> once, even if it actually ran three times; platform-specific cases
> to be handled; and if you wanted to do something like increment a
> build number to be the same across platforms, you could increment
> only for the "1/3" case.

Agreed. Parameters allow for simpler implementation while still delivering platform differentiation.

I'm less certain about the count params, and would favor a build number. But that would require that all of us use build numbers, and perhaps some don't, so I'm not opposed either.

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 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Systems
 Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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