2008/1/10, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > it was successful enough to still be in use today more than 2 years > after I'm gone, mostly untouched. > > I think this is very usual. Once a build system is ok, no-one want to take the risk to change it, and often no-one can change it anymore.
This is why black magic should be avoided. And this is why good documentation techniques are required. If you have ever maintained a generic build script written by someone else you probably understand what I mean. I think this is the major challenge in the build managment today. And that will be the challenge for such a project. -- Gilles Scokart
