On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 23:50 -0700, Raoul Duke wrote:
> On 7/14/07, Erick Tryzelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> i'd _guess_ that the best way to go is to not roll-your-own, rather to
> use something which already exists 

There's nothing. NO build system out there other than the
Felix one works at all. Omake is the closest thing to something
that might possibly work..

Sure, you have make etc .. but they only work on Unix,
so that's out.

Scons, etc etc .. we looked. They're all wrong.

The thing is, the whole *design* principle of make is utterly
wrong, and every man and his dog have tried to make a better
'make' without thinking the real problem through.

Target (goal) driven building is WRONG. It starts to fail
for even trivial projects in C, it fails completely and 
utterly for anything non-C or even moderate sized or with
any kind of commercial objectives.

It's really hard to tell one million programmers they're
all lemmings .. they all think building should be target
driven. But they're wrong, not matter how many of them
there are believing it.

As to source code management, that really only concerns
a few developers, and we can probably struggle along
with SVN just as we struggled along with CVS before we switched.

> software is hard.

We just need more resources = people.

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net

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