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Also worth examining is JAM at

http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html

It is an open source, small, fast, multi-platform build system that has been used in significant applications to great affect. It was originally developed at Sybase or Ingres to address their massive multiplatform and version problem.

I have no experience with it, though have heard good things about it, and am considering using it for future projects (especially those that use C or C++).

At 06:39 PM 6/2/00 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:

>"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
> >
> > At 11:56 PM 6/1/00 , Paul Snively wrote:
> > >http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ and I sure will!
> >
> > make's syntax is so terrible that I figured any attempt from scratch would
> > have to be an improvement. I just took a look at Ant and, by using XML,
> > they have succeeded at proving me wrong. Ant make-rules look even less
> > maintainable than Makefiles. Quite an achievement!
>
>Speaking from experience, Ant is substantially easier to maintain than
>make.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ben.
>
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