RH2020 while compiling a msgbox appear for progress. What's is happening when 'patching'?

[Olivier Toebosch]

Hello, just wondering if compilation will be possibily faster under certain circumstances.

what happens when RH is 'patching' during compilation?

I suspect removing not existing links or something like that. Which is possible in my case, as they have to be corrected.

I'm just wondering if compilation will be skipping that patching once links are in order.

best regards

Olivier

[Peter Grainge]

It's doing all sorts of things. Essentially output files are not the same as source files, patching is applying the changes.

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[Amebr · Accepted solution]

'Patching' in this case is not talking about fixing problems. It's more like a developer synonym for 'processing'

[Peter Grainge]

That's what I said. 🙂

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[Olivier Toebosch]

Naah Peter, more details in the answer of Amebr 🙂

[Peter Grainge]

As you wish but explain the difference between "applying the changes" and "processing". 🙂 

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[Olivier Toebosch]

in my developper linguo patching means applying a correcting bit of software on an existing whole package. It is very specificallyh the term 'patching' that triggered my question.

In essence Ambr said it is not what I thought it would be.

once that is sorted out you indeed said  more or less the same things

cheers

Olivier

[Peter Grainge]

in my developper linguo patching means applying a correcting bit of software on an existing whole package

Yes, RoboHelp is applying the changes needed to convert the source code to the output code. The word "patching" was applied by Adobe's developers.

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[Olivier Toebosch]

So no chance compilation will shorten...

thx

case closed then!