On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > I got a fancy idea. How about just use the real MakeFile and shell > execute 'make' to build target, test or install?
Which flavor of "make" were you thinking of? Note also that make wants to build files from other files, mostly with extension based rules, and with unix shell for some of the low level work. So a related question is: which version of unix shell should be installed with J? And then there's the issue of building a user interface for it. A full interface for make would be complicated, and a simple interface would cause problems for hand-edited makefiles. All of which makes me think that this approach should be piloted outside the main focus on J development, to see if a useful approach is doable. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
