On 2008-09-06, Andreas Poisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Editing system.mk is easy and I've been keeping my systems up on the > latest version of Ion for years. On the other hand, a standard build > chain would make it even easier for users to follow your vision (by > using tools like toast). Wouldn't it serve your intents to provide a > method to build Ion without having to manually edit a file (system.mk)?
make is standard. autocrap [1] is a vomit-inducing pile of kludges created by people utterly incapable of software *design* (just like most of the FOSScracy). It can not be considered a proper standard, because, being program source code, only one program can read the files and hope to do the right thing. (Cf. the hopeless task of producing a latex to html converter that actually works.) It's all hacks upon hacks, because the information is not in a well-specified structural format, as in my "capable packages" [2] proposal... or even most distros' package descriptions, that do redundant work because autocrap doesn't easily provide adequate specifications. [1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/82891 [2]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2007/07/16/T22_41_22/ -- Tuomo
