[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Add DONT-COMPILE-HIERARCHY option to compiler

[cverbiest]

Problem : In a multi project setup rcode from one project ends up in another project. Example c inherits from b, b inherits from a, each class is in a separate project. The propath contains all projects The compile of the 3 classes propath = "a/tty,b/tty,c/tty,a/src,b/src,c/src". compile ./a/src/a/a.cls save into ./a/tty. compile ./b/src/b/b.cls save into ./b/tty. compile ./c/src/c/c.cls save into ./c/tty. results in ./a/tty/a/a.r ./b/tty/a/a.r ./b/tty/b/b.r ./c/tty/a/a.r ./c/tty/b/b.r ./c/tty/c/c.r 6 rcode files instead of the required 3. This causes overhead and hard to find issues, e.g. when only one of the a.r files is recompiled. compiler:MULTI-COMPILE = true does not help, adding it it results in 5 instead of 3 rcode files ./a/tty/a/a.r ./b/tty/a/a.r ./b/tty/b/b.r ./c/tty/b/b.r ./c/tty/c/c.r and it wont help if each project a,b and c are compiled by there own AVM. With the compilerONT-COMPILE-HIERARCHY = true The compiler should use the already available rcode instead of recompiling and resaving the already exisitng ones. It should only save rcode for the requested class. sample code

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