Brian and JMD, Could you please expose in details what you want to do and why?
Some real examples would be great. > From: James Michael DuPont [mailto:mdupont777@;yahoo.com] > > My advice is don't, even if I understand why you want to do that. > Please explain, The OS group where I work also have the nice job of maintaining the make system we use at our job. I've been fighting with make systems lately, especially Cons (which is good but limits my thinking possibilities). I also thought about writing a make system or modifying something existing, From the private discussion I've had with some cons users, I'd say that there are other that want to write a make system that is _not_ 'make'. IMO make systems are complex and need to be tested quite thoroughly. I don't say it is neither fun nor possible; it is just a lot of work. > There are not enough diagnostic tools for the automake or the debian > make, or even MakeMake in general. Cons and MPP are good for that. > We need to provide some standard visualization/gui tools that can read > dumps from various build systems using a standard input language. Wooowww, I stop the warnings to state my admiration for your courage (foolishness ;-). If I can't convince you to not develop something new, I'd be glad to help (foolishness is cool). > Then it will be easier to figure out problems and learn about systems. Cheers Nadim.
