>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.
One reason not to use cons is that we will have to port it to parrot/perl6 in order to become self hosting, another, is that it may not meet all of our needs, especially in trying to do everything for all platforms. One of the keys of the system Jeff has implemented is that it's 100% real perl code and real perl objects, not a language parsed with perl. This means you can do nifty things and write perl code to modify things in a natural way. Having said that, if you want to convert the current system to cons, and submit it, it might get us far enough along for now. But, also, having just implemented something very similar to what Jeff has put together for $DAYJOB, I think there is a lot of power in having your own system. -R
