Archive - Apr 29, 2006

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Incremental build scratch pad

This scratch pad for the Incremental builds main page.  Like a Wikipedia discussion tab, this page accumlates notes for the design.

2006-4-29 erikh

Maybe pointing out the obvious, incremental builds of plain-old Java can be managed by comparing the timestamp on the source and compiled file only because the runtime JVM handles the integration.

Unless we have a viewer that can provide equivalent integration at runtime, DITA XML modules have to integrate at build time.  That integration has to resolve:
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