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