10.4. Package Specification
Programming has always involved the “packaging” of related programs. This includes compiling a group of programs into a single object library and configuring the code of a single subsystem under one source code directory. Configuration management tools allow us to package our software under logical and functional subject areas so developers can easily locate programs for check-out and check-in purposes.
For some environments, the highest abstraction of a unit of software is a procedure. The management of the software repository then becomes the management of many individual programs. For other languages, procedures that collectively satisfy a major functional requirement compile into one object module, managed as one ...
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