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

[Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@...>]

On 8 March 2013 19:44, Zé <jose.passes@gmx.com> wrote:
> Please don't do this.  Doing this would mean that you'd be missing the
> point, as make's job is to simply automatically determine which piece of a
> program needs to be rebuilt.  This is why scrips are used to generate
> makefiles, and makefiles are handled by make.  And make handles them
> exquisitely well.  All that UNIX "write programs that do one thing and do it
> well" philosophy and all.

I guess the authors of GNU Make missed the point too then, since
recent versions of Make have support for embedded Guile.