use make and version control system for every project?

[Carl Banks]

AK wrote:
> Hi, I recently read an advice here that one should try to use make and
> version control system even if you're the only one working on the
> program. Is that a good advice? How many of you do that?


Personally, I use make on every single one of my projects.  I even use
make to run setup.py in my pure Python packages.  (Cause it's just
easier to 'type make install' than 'python setup.py install--home=~'.)
It's not necessary, but it can save a lot of work and keep everything
up-to-date.

Version control, it depends.  I've used CVS for some personal projects
before, and can't say I've ever found it useful, and it's definitely a
pain to keep things up-to-date.  I recommend, for personal projects,
not bothering with version control at least until the project is
fairly stable.

But if you don't use version control, be sure to make frequent backups
(and store the backups on another medium; hard disks crash; it
happened to me).


my-2-cents-ly yr's,

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CARL BANKS                   http://www.aerojockey.com/software

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