On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:23:28AM -0500, Lee Meador spake thus: > [...]Can anyone claim > that a makefile's syntax is any easier to understand? > [...] > -- Lee
*dons flame retardant suit* Frankly, yes. A Makefile is transparent in way that maven and maven plugins are not. An individual Makefile target can be understood piecemeal by inspection and by invoking pieces of it directly in the shell. However, I wouldn't recommend maintaining Makefiles by hand for large projects; the GNU autotools[0] are much better suited for that, and suffer from a lot of the same documentation mishmash issues that people have been citing here. -Al [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system -- :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Alan D. Salewski Software Developer Health Market Science, Inc. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
