On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:59:56 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>At 06:10 PM 10/10/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
>>Any interest in using something less painful than Make for this? I was
>>thinking of Cons, myself...built in Perl 5 (which we are already requiring
>>you to have), and much more friendly than Make.
>
>Don't forget that our requirement for perl 5 is ultimately temporary. The
>build system is the one thing that *can't* be in perl, since we'd need a
>working simple makefile to build the first go-round of perl 6 which then
>configures and rebuilds itself.
OTOH, "make" isn't very user friendly (the tabs vs. spaces thing is
notorious), and not all "make" tools work the same on all platforms.
--
Bart.
