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* [9fans] make out?
@ 2011-12-02 22:29 Lyndon Nerenberg
  2011-12-02 22:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
  2011-12-02 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lyndon Nerenberg @ 2011-12-02 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

make
nmake
pmake
bmake
mk
gmake

i guess ant is the solution.  lord knows posix could not decide on a
single syntax. because it would mean picking one syntax.  which was
against the rules.  unlike all the places where they did that in the C
library.  fecking eeegits.



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* Re: [9fans] make out?
  2011-12-02 22:29 [9fans] make out? Lyndon Nerenberg
@ 2011-12-02 22:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
  2011-12-02 22:39   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  2011-12-02 23:09   ` tlaronde
  2011-12-02 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Nielsen @ 2011-12-02 22:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 14:29, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> make
> nmake
> pmake
> bmake
> mk
> gmake
>
> i guess ant is the solution.  lord knows posix could not decide on a single
> syntax. because it would mean picking one syntax.  which was against the
> rules.  unlike all the places where they did that in the C library.  fecking
> eeegits.

Having had to (grudgingly) deal with ant, I would say that it is
definitely not the solution. Ant uses XML for its syntax. I think that
says it all.

-- 
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots & tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson



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* Re: [9fans] make out?
  2011-12-02 22:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
@ 2011-12-02 22:39   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  2011-12-02 23:09   ` tlaronde
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lyndon Nerenberg @ 2011-12-02 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

> Having had to (grudgingly) deal with ant, I would say that it is
> definitely not the solution. Ant uses XML for its syntax. I think that
> says it all.

But is the ant not tattooed on the camel's nose?



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* Re: [9fans] make out?
  2011-12-02 22:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
  2011-12-02 22:39   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
@ 2011-12-02 23:09   ` tlaronde
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: tlaronde @ 2011-12-02 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:34:49PM -0800, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 14:29, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> > make
> > nmake
> > pmake
> > bmake
> > mk
> > gmake
> >
> > i guess ant is the solution.  lord knows posix could not decide on a single
> > syntax. because it would mean picking one syntax.  which was against the
> > rules.  unlike all the places where they did that in the C library.  fecking
> > eeegits.
> 
> Having had to (grudgingly) deal with ant, I would say that it is
> definitely not the solution. Ant uses XML for its syntax. I think that
> says it all.

And seeing the mess, wanting to be able to compile and cross-compile
on whatever; or wanting to not need tens of gigabytes of free space
to compile a "thing" to finally obtain tens of megabytes of programs
(solution: program the framework so that intermediary objects are
removed once the target is obtained); and definitively _not_ wanting
autoconf and automake, I have designed R.I.S.K. for KerGIS, used
now for kerTeX too (and others not published):  it has taken me
even not one day of work (it for sure shows).

Not to say that R.I.S.K. is the solution. But there are a lot of threads
that take an amount of time reading sufficient to have the job done...

-- 
        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
                      http://www.kergis.com/
Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89  250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C



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* Re: [9fans] make out?
  2011-12-02 22:29 [9fans] make out? Lyndon Nerenberg
  2011-12-02 22:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
@ 2011-12-02 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
  2011-12-02 23:27   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bakul Shah @ 2011-12-02 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:29:05 PST Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>  wrote:
> make
> nmake
> pmake
> bmake
> mk
> gmake

jam
cmake
scons

> i guess ant is the solution.

http://xkcd.com/927/



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* Re: [9fans] make out?
  2011-12-02 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
@ 2011-12-02 23:27   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lyndon Nerenberg @ 2011-12-02 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

>> i guess ant is the solution.
> http://xkcd.com/927/
http://xkcd.com/912/



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