On 11/27/14 1:05 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thank you for providing more information on the topic.
[1] http://gittup.org/tup/build_system_rules_and_algorithms.pdf
That was an interesting read and the numbers are quite impressive.
However I'm skeptical of the overall approach, as it seems to require a
considerable amount of manual maintenance: file-change lists, 'inverse
dependency' tracking, sorted file lists. (?) It looks like tup's solving
a much simpler problem than make; while make solves the whole problem.
No, make does not solve the whole problem. Tup solves more than make.
Please read http://www.conifersystems.com/whitepapers/gnu-make/. That is
one of my go to articles for explaining why make sucks. Mike Shal's
literature is also on the short list.
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