On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some other examples: > 1. > Aren’t makefiles data-driven? And if so should not much more declarative > attempts like jam have been correspondingly more successful? > https://www.perforce.com/resources/documentation/jam > > [Personally Ive always believed that jam is better than make and is less used > for entirely historical reasons; something like half the world eoling with > crlf > and half with lf. But maybe make is really a better design because more > imperative?]
The issues with makefiles are mainly to do with metaprogramming (plus a few specific issues with the format itself, which don't apply to the more general concept). There's a ton of magic to cope with makefiles that try to rebuild themselves, plus all the extra tooling around the outside (configure scripts etc), to try to move to a meta-level above the makefile and thus enable metaprogramming of makefile contents. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
