Good ideas :-), no time :-(
François Pinard
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed May 24 11:52:32 EDT 2000
"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
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