Subject: Perl as a dependency?
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sat Jun 17 2000 - 16:38:48 CDT
From http://www.dsmit.com/cons/ (sorry about the line breaks):
Do you use Makefiles for your project? Have you ever done a "make
clean; make all" just because you didn't
know if the files you changed would be rebuilt correctly? Or perhaps
you work on several machines accessing
an NFS server, and if their clocks aren't in sync, make won't know to
rebuild things? Well, welcome to a new
and better way to control the building of your projects.
CONS is a replacement for MAKE. It is not compatible with make, but
it has a number of powerful capabilities
not found in other software construction systems, including make. It
is distributed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL).
CONS is implemented in Perl. You don't need to know Perl to use CONS,
although you can use it more
powerfully if you do.
CONS is known to work on a variety of platforms. It's in production
use on versions of FreeBSD, Linux,
Solaris, Windows NT, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, and IRIX.
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It seems like it runs on windows and unix. Good. But it would make perl a
prerequisite for building AbiWord. I have a feeling that the SourceGear
people are going to say no, but it's worth a try ;-).
Aaron Lehmann
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