On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:34:49PM -0800, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 14:29, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > > make > > nmake > > pmake > > bmake > > mk > > gmake > > > > i guess ant is the solution. lord knows posix could not decide on a single > > syntax. because it would mean picking one syntax. which was against the > > rules. unlike all the places where they did that in the C library. fecking > > eeegits. > > Having had to (grudgingly) deal with ant, I would say that it is > definitely not the solution. Ant uses XML for its syntax. I think that > says it all.
And seeing the mess, wanting to be able to compile and cross-compile on whatever; or wanting to not need tens of gigabytes of free space to compile a "thing" to finally obtain tens of megabytes of programs (solution: program the framework so that intermediary objects are removed once the target is obtained); and definitively _not_ wanting autoconf and automake, I have designed R.I.S.K. for KerGIS, used now for kerTeX too (and others not published): it has taken me even not one day of work (it for sure shows). Not to say that R.I.S.K. is the solution. But there are a lot of threads that take an amount of time reading sufficient to have the job done... -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C