make tools (was Java 1.3)

[Dean Tribble]

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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