What is the difference between SPL and NEW_SPL?
At one time SPL was changing so fast (bug fixes AND enhanced optimizations) that engineering claimed that they had no time to evaluate its effect on products developed with the “not the latest version” of SPL. The people building the master disk software decreed that all products will be built with the previous release’s version of SPL, and that the new one being submitted would be available during the build process as NEW_SPL. It was only to be used by those products which depended upon its new features or critical bug fixes. I think the split started sometime in the 19.4, 20.2, or 21.0 time frame, and was eradicated when SPL was added as a member of the “T-Family” at T2.0-22.1. (Talk about being short lived!) • Q) 3.4 What does INDEX>BUILD do? I wrote BUILD because we didn’t have UNIX make and I was getting very frustrated with the EMACS project. It was too big to just always recompile, yet hand recompilation often led to trouble. So I wrote BUILD. I couldn’t call it MAKE since that
