Re: [dev] requirements of build systems

2022-02-19 Thread Petros Pateros
On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 08:09:12AM -0500, LM wrote: Dear Laura, > Very nice and definitely better than just using an ordinary shell script. Calling other programs to determine and report a target's dependencies, is convenient, efficient and not limited by any pattern description language. This

Re: [dev] requirements of build systems

2022-02-05 Thread Petros Pateros
Thank you all for your answers. On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 06:38:01PM +0100, Страхиња Радић wrote: > apenwarr/redo is the implementation of djb redo I settled on for my programs. > It > has the most features among the current implementations. I'm glad to hear that. But it doesn't implement the less

Re: [dev] requirements of build systems

2022-02-01 Thread Petros Pateros
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:34:52AM -0500, LM wrote: Dear Laura, > This looks like a very interesting project. I've been looking for some > alternatives to GNU make. I hope you find something to fit your needs. > I do use a few GNU make features that I'm not sure about porting to other > alterna

[dev] requirements of build systems

2022-01-30 Thread Petros Pateros
Hello, I hope you all are doing well. Some time ago, I was using redo for building a C project, but redo, unlike make is non-standard, so one needed a redo implementation to build the project. At the time, redo implementations where either written in Python,Go or had annoying bugs like creating