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On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 02:24:22PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-01-02T14:34:22-0500, Rich Salz wrote:
> > The difference is that "make" need only run on your build systems.
> > Installation scripts need to run on customer systems.
> 
> Surprisingly (not really), I don't agree with this, either.
> 
> make, like tsort, is a generally useful tool that people misconceive as
> being limited in scope to traditional compile-and-link software
> development.
> 
> A dab of imagination and familiarity with existing tooling can save one
> much wheel reinvention.

If we wanted to use Makefiles in our customer run product, we would have
shipped it.