Re: Tired of make. Anyone interested in a guile-based replacement?

[jonas@gnu.org]

Clifford Beshers <beshers@cs.columbia.edu> writes:

> I tried using automake and found it impossible.  It's nice when you
> get a package and say configure ; make and it works, but writing the
> thing yourself is a nightmare.  It's all macros defined heaven knows
> where.

How about rewriting Automake in Scheme? :)  This is from the GNU
tasklist;

     * Rewrite Automake in Scheme, so it can run in Guile. Right now it
       is written in Perl. There are also other programs, not terribly
       long, which we would also like to have rewritten in Scheme.

I'd suggest that if people want to write a scheme-based make, even if
this is not on the GNU Tasklist, you could write to the GNU Volunteer
Coordinators <gvc@gnu.org>. They might have records of people wanting
to work with Scheme-programs that could be interested in helping.


Jonas