On 30/10/02 10:11 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:15:24PM -0800, Brian Ingerson wrote: > > I'm looking into building a pure Perl version of gmake. It will use object > > oriented modules. You could use these yourself to parse and rewrite the > > Makefile. And you could always serialize the object in YAML. > > You could get a headstart by adopting and extending Nick I-S's pmake > http://search.cpan.org/author/NI-S/Make-1.00/pmake
heh. I just found this 10 minutes ago :) It's great. Cross that off my list. Thank god. > Performs the same function as make(1) but is written entirely in > perl. A subset of GNU make extensions is supported. For details see > Make for the underlying perl module. > > athough I still wonder why we are thinking about how to hack round non > portability in make, with perl programs communicating with other perl > programs via makefiles, when we could just ditch Makefiles completely > by integrate the MakeMaker and make stages. I think extending the make thing is easiest. Everything works everywhere already. I'm actually a big fan of extending legacy. The old inventors were no slouches. Writing something new is always easy for the first 80%. After that you start appreciating the legacy more and more :) I'd save retooling for Perl6 where you have to do it anyway. Cheers, Brian
