Re: Need reviews of HLA Adventure

Jim Carlock wrote:

....
> <FILES="*.asm;*.inc" />
> <DEFAULTDATETIME="12/31/2525 13:14.00" />
> <FILE="hlaadv.asm" DateTime="12/31/2525 13:14.01" />
> <FILE="hlaadv.exe" DateTime="12/25/3535 00:00.00" />

Well I'm glad to see you're using a four-digit year. We
don't need any Y3K bug! The dates you mention overflow
32-bits, in "seconds since the dawn of time"... When is it,
2027 sometime that happens?

....
> And I kept seeing C like statements inside
> of it.

Funny, some people see Pascal-like statements. :)

> And that's when it clicked that it was a script.
> 5) In reality it is a script to create files.

That's one way to look at it, I guess.

> And the files it creates should
> have a way to set the date/time on the files it creates. After all it's a
> script to build files. And if the purpose is to build files, the date and
> time is an important part of the file.

It does... It dates 'em the date/time that the "script
processor" created the files from the "script". If you wrote
a program for Masm yesterday, and assembled it today, would
the executable have yesterday's date? It *would* help with
the "versioning problem" to do it that way. Wouldn't work
well on multi-file projects. Stamp the executable with the
most recent date encountered, I suppose... Beats hell out of
having to edit the XML - several places - every time you
change anything, anyway!

> Furthermore, overwriting existing
> files should be a consideration.

Well, if HLA promped me to overwrite existing .asm and .inc
files, and Gas prompted me to overwrite the existing .o
file, and ld prompted me to overwrite the existing
executable... *every* time I made an edit to the .hla
file... it would slow development considerably! It would
clear up some space on my hard drive. All that crap could
go! It ain't *that* inflexible to emit a flat binary with
the ELF executable header in place with Nasm! :)

I find it hard to imagine that you'd really want that (if
you didn't want to overwrite existing files, what in hell
are you running HLA for?) - but people want some surprising
things.

Best,
Frank
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