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Subject:Re: Have QA compile the help project? From:Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:18:05 -0500
Hi, Lynda,
Here's what works well for us:
We develop and store our help source files in SourceSafe along with the
code. The build scripts call our makehelp.bat scripts, which build the
help--so, every time they (developers) do a new build of the software,
they get our latest changes. No muss, no fuss.
A.
--
Alexia Prendergast
Tech Pubs Manager
Seagate Software (Durham, NC, USA) mailto:alexiap -at- seagatesoftware -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> I need reasons why the help author *only* should be doing the work up
> to
> the point of delivery. OR, if anyone is handing over a
> ready-to-compile
> folder (mine's 480 files, 10MG before compiling, and one file, 780KB
> after compiling) to the QA staff, please let me know, and how well
> does
> it work?
>