Re: [Adobe-source-devel] new build structure

[Foster T. B. <fbr...@ad...>]

All,

ADOBE_SERIALIZATION is a flag we us to turn on/off all uses of operator 
<< in the ASL. Something you'd be able to do with it on would be:

	adobe::value_t	foo(5);

	std::cout << foo << std::endl; // prints out 5

There are also some iostream manipulators (iomanip and all the related 
sources) that are used in Adobe Begin to get pdf-like output when the 
user hits the OK button (on Mac, anyways).

The reason there is a switch is because we are not convinced the code 
is quite ready for full inclusion into the ASL, however it provides 
enough useful functionality for Adobe Begin that we didn't want to pull 
it all together.

asl_lib_dev is the "development" version of the ASL. It is intended for 
use when clients are developing their application, giving them features 
they might find helpful in debugging their code. asl_lib is the 
"release" version of ASL, and the one we recommend final binaries be 
linking to. A question was raised a while back that we should just have 
one project with four targets, but decided against it as we wanted to 
keep serialization as completely separate as possible.

To test this, Adobe Begin has four built targets: debug, release, debug 
(dev) and release (dev). The release targets are highly optimized, and 
the (dev) targets are linking to asl_lib_dev and have serialization 
set.

I hope this clears some things up.

Blessings,
Foster

On Mar 23, 2005, at 07:59p, David Catmull wrote:

> On Mar 23, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Ralph Thomas wrote:
>> (the asl_lib_dev has
>> ADOBE_SERIALIZED defined for all objects, but asl_lib does not)
>
> I'm not quite clear on the significance of this, and why there are two 
> separate libraries.
>
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