On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 04:34 PM, Terrence Brannon wrote: > for a caveat to Make not existing purely in Perl, see makepp: > > http://makepp.sourceforge.net/ > > It is a syntax-compatible drop-in replacement for make. But also can be > extended with Perl
I think makepp is a cool project, but it doesn't help this situation much. For one thing, it only runs on Unix, precisely the system that 'make' is already always available on. Second, it still requires the writing of Makefiles, the unpleasantness of which I'm strenuously trying to avoid. -Ken
