I'm going to have to agree with your boss.

Personally, the make, make install is just too slow for a rapid edit, run, edit cycle. It would make me 20% slower with no apparent gain.

There are a couple cycles you are looking at, the "developing individual CI module: edit->unit test->edit->unit test->..." cycle where, as pointed out above, you don't really have to "make, make install" every time.

The other is the "install multiple CI modules->integration test->find bug" where you are really testing the install process itself, so it really makes sense to do a full "make install".

If your whole app fits into one CI (configuration item), where no module is (or ever will be) useful without all the others (take a close look if this really is the case), then the vast majority of your development time can be spent between "make" and "make test", only rarely getting to "make install".

In reply to Re: modular app development - where do your modules live? by ctilmes
in thread modular app development - where do your modules live? by metaperl

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