On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 7:14 PM <jonas.hahnf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I very much agree with you, but out of the existing language within > > our tree (Perl, Python, Shell, C++, Make), it is the least worst > > option. Make is too limited (see the mess that our makefiles are > > today), Shell has all the problems of Make. We can't use C++ in the > > build system, and Perl is a godawful mess of line-noise. > > > > What do you suggest instead? > > Not doing this at all. > In cases like this, I begin to question the very fundamental > assumptions. In this case: Do we really need to dynamically generate the
You didn't answer my question, but I realize it was imperfectly stated. My question is: what overall architecture do you propose for the build system? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
