On 2018-12-30 01:32, stephen Turner wrote:
If one was going to rewrite a cleaner make what would be the
recommended approach?
I see in a slightly older 2012 release of the code entries for windows
32 and amiga. I’m questioning why!
Would it be worth while to strip make of these items and then attempt
to clean the code section by section? Diff a legacy and perhaps gnu
exclusive version against a newer release, or perhaps another
approach?
In the past I have learned coding by jumping into an existing item and
rewriting, not sure if this is a task I will take on but the thought
has crossed my mind.
I am not skilled enough to start from scratch and make is just too
bloated as is to try and tackle for me, I’m thinking perhaps removing
these legacy items and going from there?
Thanks,
Stephen
Dear Stephen,
Are you wanting to have a clean reimplementation of POSIX make or a new
(simpler) build system to replace make itself? Having thought about it
my opinions is that the second option is a better one.
If you agree consider joining forces with me on building makes
<https://github.com/rain-1/makes> a replacement for make. I have some
initial work here which supports incremental and parallel builds. I'd be
interested to hear you opinions on it.
You'll notice that it is ~200 lines while make is 39643 lines, I think
that this demonstrates some potential of the idea
<https://softwarecrisis.miraheze.org/wiki/Linecount#build_system>.
- rain
