Re: [9fans] mash

[Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>]

> 
> 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
> 

Hmmmm, haven't looked at that.

Rick Hohensee