An IDE does not necessarily build an artifact in the conventional sense. Yet, it needs to know the set of configuration parameters in order to understand the content of a source file.

— Gaby

> On Aug 31, 2018, at 11:14 AM, Nathan Sidwell <nathan_at_acm.org> wrote:
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>> On 08/31/2018 12:05 PM, Tom Honermann wrote:
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>> If so, my concern with that approach is that it effectively requires a build system.
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> Let me clarify something here, it provides mechanism without policy, so yes, it requires something to give the policy. That is a build system. What we're discussing here is a build system -- how things get built. #includes and their include path are a build system in that respect.
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> What the mapper does is decouple the compiler from whatever that build system is. (Unlike #include paths, which are baked into compilers.)
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> nathan
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