On 06/14/2014 01:00 PM, Conrad Dean wrote:
Hey!
I have a project where I need to generate datasets that are not stored as
flat files. I can use a CLI interface to generate them off of others and
the same CLI to check when datasets were last modified. I think I want to
use automake to describe the relationships between datasets, and detect
when an upstream dataset has been generated to update the downstream ones.
Would make be a good fit for that? or is it too-closely tied to just
dealing with files?
Thanks!
Conrad
As no one replied yet, here are my 0,02€.
Automake lets you specify makefile rules, as the contents of a
Makefile.am are copied to Makefile.in verbatim[¹].
Therefore, if you can write a makefile that generates your datasets then
you can extend automake to build them too.
And make certainly can generate your datasets.
Hope this helps,
--
Zé
[¹] http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending
