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- From: andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg)
- Subject: Re: Distributing TPUs
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 12:40:53 GMT
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- Alan Mead (amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
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- : >In article <1992Dec21.135420.10280@discus.technion.ac.il> s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Golan) writes:
- : >>
- : >>I want to distribute a TP unit which uses a second unit. I do not want
- : >>to distribute the second unit with it, only the first TPU. Can it be done ?
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- Distributing just a .TPU is fine, but please be sure to document it really
- well.
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- : This makes it sound like you are distributing COMPILED units. You could
- : release the source to unit 1 and the compiled .TPU to unit 2 (the one you
- : are reluctant to distribute) and all would be well (as long as your users
- : use EXACTLY the same version of TP).
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- This really isn't a big deal when you consider that there are really only 3
- versions of TP to distribute for.
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- : >give your program a much wider audience by distributing it in source form,
- : >perhaps without giving away source to external .OBJ files.
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- : Why doesn't Turbo Pascal produce a OBJ file? Does Borland Pascal? I
- : think this is a really serious drawback. (I think I know the
- : advantages of a TPU--dynamic code deletion etc).
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- The advantage of a TPU is that it is a lot faster, and can contain interface
- code (which a OBJ can't very easily).
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- : -alan
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