Re: Build systems suck. Can Lua be the basis for a better build system?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great steve donovan once stated:
> > 5) Scalability.  Obviously, being smart in your choice of algorithms is one
> > means to this end.  If it doesn't scale, it sucks,
> 
> That's my concern. I do automatic dependency checking, and you get
> this explosion of dependencies on zillions of header files. Pruning
> the tree becomes important, and I would really appreciate some advice
> on this.

  I would think any header file that exists outside the top level directory
of your project can be pruned.  At the very least, on a Unix system, any
header file in "/usr/include", "/usr/local/include" and /opt/include" could
be removed.

  -spc (But somehow, I always go back to make ... )