Re: [ANN] Lake 1.2, a Lua-based Build Tool

[David Manura <dm.lua@...>]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a new release of Lake [1], which is a build tool written in
> and configurable using Lua.

How is this differentiated from primemover? [1-2]

As you mention the desire for parallel build support, a related need
for larger C++ projects is precompiled headers.  Ninja [3] perhaps is
something to consider in terms of speed and being designed to be
called from another higher-level build tool.  IMO, memoized build
systems [4] also look interesting.

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg00228.html
[2] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-10/msg00262.html
[3] http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html
[4] http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2011-March/043366.html