Re: [dev] suckless distro

From: Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware_AT_legeek.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:28:29 +0200

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:07:17AM -0700, Ryan O’Hara wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware_AT_legeek.net> wrote:
>> My arguments are perfectly sensible from the perspective of making
>> SDKs suckless: the avoidance of technically expensive components
>> in small SDKs.
>>
>
> To look at things another way: simple projects don’t require particularly
> complicated Makefiles. You can write one simple enough that running the second
> line is equivalent to running make. If it needs to be extended in the future,
> that’s easy enough; it’s portable; everyone can read it; everyone knows how
> to override its configuration.

Indeed, but those simple projects would not require complicated shell scripts
too.
Then better use a shell script instead a makefile.

Why?

Well for all the reasons I stated in off-topic part of this
thread ;)

-- 
Sylvain 
Received on Wed Jun 25 2014 - 18:28:29 CEST

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