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

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