From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
Message-Id: <200011021554.KAA32541@smarty.smart.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mash
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
In-Reply-To: <20001102132035.7C21C199D7@mail> from "rob pike" at Nov 2, 0 08:20:28 am
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Date: Thu,  2 Nov 2000 10:54:16 -0500
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> 
> 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