"Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Rather not. Python is AFAIK not as portable as Perl. But there is a Perl based make somewhere, the named just escaped my mind.
We use Makepp (http://makepp.sourceforge.net/) here. Written in Perl, its particular strength is how it avoids recursive make (and thus lets us get the dependencies right).
Whatever we use is fine as long as:
a) We can edit the dependency file without having to know the language the tool's written in
b) the tool can be convinced to scan the entire tree at startup and build a rebuild script that doesn't need the tool itself
c) It's a language we can guarantee we've got available (which means either C or a language that compiles to parrot bytecode)
I'd prefer the tool to be in a language I'm comfortable with, but if the tool works and is stable I'm easy here.
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