From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] mash
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:20:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001102132035.7C21C199D7@mail> (raw)
We needed a make-like facility in Inferno but I dreaded porting
make or mk. I had been musing for some time that mk is conceptually
just a special dependency-driven wrapper for shell scripts (this is its
major advance over make, in which the recipes are all mangled and
variables adjusted before the script is run). It therefore seemed that
a shell with a little extra could provide the ability to write building
scripts as shell scripts. But I didn't know how to do it right. I mooted
this to Brucee, who ran with it and made mash by exploiting the module
loading of Inferno. It was a brilliant coup and I wish I had it in other
systems.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2000-11-02 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-02 13:20 rob pike [this message]
2000-11-02 15:54 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-11-03 9:27 ` Leo Caves
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2000-11-03 17:25 rog
2000-07-18 7:42 [9fans] Mash forsyth
2000-07-18 8:18 ` Lucio De Re
2000-07-18 8:24 ` Lucio De Re
2000-07-17 2:01 pip
2000-07-16 22:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-07-17 0:57 pip
2000-07-16 21:49 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-07-16 22:20 brucee
2000-07-16 17:50 brucee
2000-07-17 9:12 ` Chris Locke
2000-07-18 6:27 ` Lucio De Re
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