About external projects

The following section describes one way to share external projects. Although there are many ways in which to share external projects, the following sections describe is how Rational® Synergy developers share external projects.

External projects save time for developers because developers do not copy and update projects that they do not change. External projects also help to promote modular code and information hiding, both considered best practices for software development.

However, the build manager must do some extra work to manage external projects. The build manager must restructure projects, update makefiles, and update build scripts that automate the build process. Developers who work on both the lower-level project (for example, the library) and the project that depends on it (for example, the executable) must manage their own working versions of the external project and both source projects.

If you want to use external projects, read the following sections:


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