On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:10:55AM -0400, Jeff wrote: > In between attempting to get the new assembler up and running (currently > dealing with XS issues), Robert Spiers and I have come up with a new > make mechanism.
XS? Is this a different assembler than Simon Cozen's? I assume so, since I've had his up and running for a while. Is this why his was never checked in? > The syntax may change, and the build mechanism has a ways to go (It's > simply running one step at a time in order, no parallelism or multiple > processes), but the basic idea so far seems sound. Without knowing too much about it, I still have to wonder what is wrong with cons? I thought it was a fully functional all-perl make replacement.