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Re: Tired of make. Anyone interested in a guile-based replacement?
Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj-pc.nada.kth.se> writes:
> The only tool required to build a package ought to be `build' +
> compiler, even when building new versions of `build' itself.
While I agree on the rest, I'm not sure about this. One of the major
point in favor of the current auto* tools is that users do *not* need them in
order to build the package. So it would be a good thing to consider seriously
if it's feasable to stick to the idea of outputting basic shell scripts.
> (I really ought to shut up before reading the rest of this thread.
> I probably repeat what others have said already.)
Me too, likely :-)
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