<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 19:44, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>Verification of preprocess code is exactly as intensive, since you have to compile each version. What is your point here?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can see all possible variants using a widely used and standardized language with editor support, the turn-around time for a correctness check is less because you don't have to reconfigure.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><div><br></div></div><div>The code I had would have continued to work, rather than break.</div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Why did you bother pulling/updating if you wanted to work with an old version? This sounds more like a problem of you/the build system not knowing when to reconfigure.</div>