Jacob Carlborg, el 3 de abril a las 19:38 me escribiste: > >Make is only a small part of the picture, is just a dependency tracking > >program, and a pretty good one if you ask me (but I agree it could be > >better), to work you have to specify the dependencies (manually or > >automatically, it's up to you). I don't know Rake but I would be very > >surprised if it's really better than Make at doing what Make was > >designed for. *Very surprised*. > > Ok, let me rephrase that. Rakefiles have a lot better syntax than makefiles.
Fair enough. But I guess that's just personal taste, I really like Make syntax better (the only thing that annoys me is $(variables) and $(function call) syntax, that could be definitely better). But to me this: file "prog" => ["a.o", "b.o"] do |t| sh "cc -o #{t.name} #{t.prerequisites.join(' ')}" end Looks much complicated (and with way much more syntax overhead) than this: prog: a.o b.o cc -o $@ $^ BTW, I took a look at Rake and it lacks a lot of Make features (well GMake at least, I usually stick to GMake because it's usually available anywhere), just for the command-line: --jobs (!), --question, --what-if, --always-make, --keep-going. Also I didn't see anything about the secondary expansion, rebuilding the Makefile itself, target-specific variables, implicit rules, pattern rules with multiple targets, .... Also for me using a declarative language instead of a imperative one is a better choice for this kind of applications. -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aFR [a...@my.farts.cause.nuclear.reaction.org] has quit IRC (Ping timeout)