It was thus said that the Great Philip Newton once stated: > 2009/8/15 Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com>: > > The bestest make replacement ever would be one that uses XML and requires a > > different version of Java than the program you're building! > > Except that it doesn't actually use an XML parser but some odd XML > hack, so if you hand-craft your Makefile.xml, it'll fail eight times > out of ten with an obscure error message because you dared to use > something that's not in the tiny subset of XML that it actually > supports. > > Such as, oh I don't know, line breaks inside tags, or more than one > space between attributes or something. (Or whitespace between tags.)
Don't you mean tabs? -spc (You know, backwards compatibility and all that ... )
