On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2001 09:18 am, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> > The key idea is that the pumpkin holder runs 'make' ONCE to determine the
> > dependencies and record the proper order to run the units in a file.
> > End-users don't have to redetermine that order every time they build perl.
>
> Oooh, a peek inside The Inner Circle.
Just to be very clear: That's how Perl5's Configure (generated by
metaconfig) works. It is not necessarily how Perl6's configuration will
work, and it's not my call to make.
I think there are a lot of good ideas in metaconfig that might prove
profitable to carry forward into perl6, but generating a huge hairy v7-era
Unix shell script is not one of them.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
