Automake is clearly not a choice, nor has it ever been for a
project of considerable size. And recursive make clearly
sucks -- the PHP project got rid of it 2 years ago. We agree
on these points.
> It was also written in Python because it is *just* starting. That script
> will also product .dsp and .dsw files in the future (the Subversion
> project generates these files, so I intend to follow that model). For now,
> it is just starting: it got rid of the recursive make crap. But there is a
> lot more that it can do.
However I completely disagree that Python (or Perl or PHP) is
a good choice for use in build systems.
> So no... switching to a shell script would not be beneficial, as it would
> cut off future capabilities.
I doubt that. .dsp and .dsw files are just other text files
which can easily be created using sh, grep, sed, tr etc.
- Sascha
