Good ideas :-), no time :-(

[François Pinard]

"Neil Hodgson" <neilh at scintilla.org> writes:

> > So, I came with this "simple" idea, that we should have tools for
> > converting Makefiles and shell scripts into specialised Python scripts.
> > (And why not `sed' and `awk' as well, once on that road, the same as
> > Perl once did.)

> There are some interesting proposals for make replacements written in
> Python [...]

I know! :-)

The goal behind the idea is automatically converting a Makefile, _hoping_
to get a more readable result.  Automatic conversion always has its own
idiosyncrasies, it is not easy to get clean results.

Rethinking and rewriting Makefiles into `make' replacements might be a
much more difficult task, and might not always be automated, I presume.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard