3 Jan
2023
3 Jan
'23
2:41 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 02:24:22PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2023-01-02T14:34:22-0500, Rich Salz wrote:
If we wanted to use Makefiles in our customer run product, we would have
shipped it.
The difference is that "make" need only
run on your build systems.
Installation scripts need to run on customer systems.
Surprisingly (not really), I don't agree with this, either.
make, like tsort, is a generally useful tool that people misconceive as
being limited in scope to traditional compile-and-link software
development.
A dab of imagination and familiarity with existing tooling can save one
much wheel reinvention.