Andrew, if you remember, one of the issues we originally brought up all those years ago was the ability to build on a Mac, and since nmake makefiles had a different structure than gnumake makefiles, that using higher level constructs could give us that cross platform support.
Wow, that's a long sentence... Cameron Esfahani di...@apple.com On Jan 30, 2013, at 16:55, Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com> wrote: > I never really though of it as the Microsoft Windows model, well I guess text > files with [Sections] was probably inspired by Windows INF files? > I think it was more inspired by modern GUI based development model. If I > write an iPhone App with Xcode I don't manually edit makefiles, and the same > goes for Visual Studio. So the concept of having simple config files stems > more from that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
