On Sat, 2022-08-13 at 22:43 -0400, Joe Flack wrote: > I would be happy to assist with implementing this feature, or > creating an issue.
Useful new features are always interesting to consider. Before any implementation can start the requirements and operations of the feature need to be clearly described. GNU make has been around for over forty years and is relied on by hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of projects: modifications must be made deliberately and carefully. Mostly this conversation would happen on the bug-m...@gnu.org mailing list rather than here; this list is mainly for people who need help writing makefiles. > I thought `make` was open source, but I don't see it on GitHub. First, GNU make is part of the GNU project, which is Free Software, not open source software. To better understand the difference you can read: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html Second, not all free or open source software ("FOSS") is available on GitHub: GitHub is itself not open source or free software. Please be sure to not equate them as "if it's FOSS it's on GitHub, and if it's not on GitHub it's not FOSS". There are many many sites that distribute FOSS in many different ways. Finally, the GNU make project is managed through the GNU project's site, Savannah. You can find the project here: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/ You can file an issue there if you like. Cheers!
