Re: [dev] Build system: redo

From: Guillaume Quintin <coincoin169g_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:51:01 +0200

Hi,

I am far far from being an expert of make and so can
you explain to me why/how
- is the parallelism better?
- can it build LaTeX document better (than make)?
  (``no baked-in assumptions about what you're building;")
- are checksums better?

Guillaume.

2012/7/15, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net>:
> Greetings.
>
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:49:08 +0200 Prakhar Goel <newt0311_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I propose adding redo to the list of software that rocks. It'll also
>> give you a nice incremental build system to use.
>>
>> Info here: http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#14
>
> It's Python. No.
>
>> Actually, pretty much all of DJBs software (daemontools, qmail,
>> djbdns, etc...) could probably be added to the list as well...
>
> You are free to push your changes to the wiki[0] for review. Please
> don’t push any prototype projects (Python, Ruby etc.). Suckless is not
> about bad tutorials.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph
>
> [0] http://suckless.org/wiki
>
>
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