>David
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>>And of course, Mike, you can merge PRGs in source control!
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>I am not in favor of merging anything. Keep all code as atomic as possible. No two developers ever have to work on the same piece. Ergo, no merging required.

Exactly... the point in merging was to have fewer files in the directory during runtime. Why? Because (m)FoxPlus and FP1.0x didn't have a linker, i.e. they couldn't produce an exe. You had to carry your files around if you wanted to distribute an app. And if there were too many of them, DOS would slow down to a crawl because it read the directories sequentially. So you wanted to have fewer files.

The whole thing became obsolete with FP2.0. We can keep them atomic as we want, and we shouldn't worry - it's all in one file now. Unce upon a time Fox even had an utility which would merge all the little .prg files into one big file. That's obsolete too, and actually wasn't delivered with last seven versions.