On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:18:40 +0200, Philip Newton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/8/15 Peter da Silva <[email protected]>: > > The bestest make replacement ever would be one that uses XML and requires a > > different version of Java than the program you're building! > > Except that it doesn't actually use an XML parser but some odd XML > hack, so if you hand-craft your Makefile.xml, it'll fail eight times > out of ten with an obscure error message because you dared to use > something that's not in the tiny subset of XML that it actually > supports. > > Such as, oh I don't know, line breaks inside tags, or more than one > space between attributes or something. (Or whitespace between tags.) Nah, one that relies on `formatted' xml with an indent level of three spaces -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
