On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Eduardo Bustamante <dual...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "build market"? What are you talking about? make was created with the > sole purpose of build automation. The shell was created to provide a > "human interface" to computer operators. These are very specific and > different purposes. Are you going to start asking next to re-implement > vi inside bash? to re-implement a mail user agent? a C compiler? Where > do you draw the line? Read: > <giggle> OP must be confusing BASH with EMACS. > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/creeping-featurism.html > > I doubt anyone is willing to go through the effort to re-implement all > the features that make provides, just because one guy thinks "it's > obsolete" -- it's not, by the way. make is very alive. Also, it is > part of the POSIX international standard. so any operating system that > claims to be compatible with UNIX must provide it, see [1] and [2] and > [3]. > > Also remember that nothing makes a stronger argument than patches. If > you want to see this feature implemented, I suggest that you start > looking into the features make provides, and send patches to add said > functionality to bash. > > [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html > [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ > [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/ > > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown
