On 2019-11-07, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > In short, if you have to type a command more than once, you need a > Makefile. It will save you time and serve as documentation to > yourself and others about how the various pieces of your project fit > together.
Definitely. Some of the projects I work on don't actually use "make" to build the software product. But they still have a Makefiles with targets for things like formatting documentation, installing the software on a target, tagging and archiving a version, generating a tarball of GPL sources, updating source trees from upstream, etc... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK makes at me nervous!! gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list