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English term or phrase:
built and unbuilt documents
English answer:
compiled and uncompiled versions
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Pamela Brizzola
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built and unbuilt documents
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Users can check out/check in built and unbuilt documents
Document Management System
Previously in the text there is a similar use of the verb "to build".
... build the database to containers..
Read-only databases, such as those built to a CD...
Can anyone help me understand the exact meaning of "to build" here?
Thanks in advance
Thank
Users can check out/check in built and unbuilt documents
Document Management System
Previously in the text there is a similar use of the verb "to build".
... build the database to containers..
Read-only databases, such as those built to a CD...
Can anyone help me understand the exact meaning of "to build" here?
Thanks in advance
Thank
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| 3 +6 | compiled and uncompiled versions |
Balasubramaniam L.
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| 3 +2 | assembled and unassembled documents |
Ken Cox
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compiled and uncompiled versions
Probably this is a version management system.
It probably stores both compiled versions and also uncompiled versions of the documents (programs).
Compiled versions are the binary files that computers can read, whereas the uncompiled versions are more human-friendly, like the statements in most high-level programming languages.
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Build here probably refers to the running of the programs through a compiler or an interpreter or a database engine to get the output that computers can understand.This output is also stored in the system along with the program and others can refer to them.
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By checkout/check in it is probably meant that users can both submit documents to the system for storage as well as remove documents that they want from the system.
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In large software development projects, many software engineers (SEs)work together and each one writes the code for a small portion of the software. Later these are combined to get the final version. When things are done this way, some mechanism is needed to integrate and coordinate the work of all the SEs. Version management systems help in this. They can store small components of the software and several versions of each component. They can store compiled forms as well as the original source code. They can regulate who accesses what and when. Large-scale software development would become impossible without such systems.
It probably stores both compiled versions and also uncompiled versions of the documents (programs).
Compiled versions are the binary files that computers can read, whereas the uncompiled versions are more human-friendly, like the statements in most high-level programming languages.
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Note added at 9 mins (2005-06-22 09:40:22 GMT)
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Build here probably refers to the running of the programs through a compiler or an interpreter or a database engine to get the output that computers can understand.This output is also stored in the system along with the program and others can refer to them.
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Note added at 10 mins (2005-06-22 09:41:56 GMT)
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By checkout/check in it is probably meant that users can both submit documents to the system for storage as well as remove documents that they want from the system.
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Note added at 33 mins (2005-06-22 10:04:58 GMT)
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In large software development projects, many software engineers (SEs)work together and each one writes the code for a small portion of the software. Later these are combined to get the final version. When things are done this way, some mechanism is needed to integrate and coordinate the work of all the SEs. Version management systems help in this. They can store small components of the software and several versions of each component. They can store compiled forms as well as the original source code. They can regulate who accesses what and when. Large-scale software development would become impossible without such systems.
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Charlie Bavington
: Highly possible, although I doubt that "build" was the word the writer wanted (see comment to Asker). At least one program version mgt system I know of uses the terms check out/in, so this seems a good possibility.
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assembled and unassembled documents
I'm sure you'll get other answers and explanations, but here's my two cents' worth.
'Build' in this sense & context comes from software engineering jargon and means to assemble all the pieces (modules) of a system (application program, for example) into a single program or package. By extension, it can also be used with reference to other types of data. For instance, 'built to CD' would amount to something like 'compiled onto a CD' (in the general sense of 'compiled', not the programming sense). Built and unbuilt documents would be documents in fully assembled form (what a normal user considers to be a document) and 'documents' in the form of their constituent parts (such as individual sections).
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Further comment: a document management system typically contains multiple verions (usually historical versions) of documents. A particular document can be built (assembled or \'created\') by selecting individual sections from those present in the system. If version control is exercised at the section or component level as well as at the document level, different document versions could be created by selecting components with different version levels. Another option is to assemble specific documents for specific versions or models of associated systems.
'Build' in this sense & context comes from software engineering jargon and means to assemble all the pieces (modules) of a system (application program, for example) into a single program or package. By extension, it can also be used with reference to other types of data. For instance, 'built to CD' would amount to something like 'compiled onto a CD' (in the general sense of 'compiled', not the programming sense). Built and unbuilt documents would be documents in fully assembled form (what a normal user considers to be a document) and 'documents' in the form of their constituent parts (such as individual sections).
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Further comment: a document management system typically contains multiple verions (usually historical versions) of documents. A particular document can be built (assembled or \'created\') by selecting individual sections from those present in the system. If version control is exercised at the section or component level as well as at the document level, different document versions could be created by selecting components with different version levels. Another option is to assemble specific documents for specific versions or models of associated systems.
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Charlie Bavington
: Had I not been busy agreeing with Bala, I would've posted an alternative along these lines :-) .
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jccantrell
: In software, building usually means taking the source code, compiling it into a single object file and making this object file available. I think 'assembled' fits pretty well.
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