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Make is old and crufty, but it's still the best at what it does. What I'd really love right now is a program which can look at a Go source tree and write make

by zeveb 10y ago

Make is old and crufty, but it's still the best at what it does. What I'd really love right now is a program which can look at a Go source tree and write make rules such that I don't have to run go build or go install unless dependencies have actually changed. It's really annoying to be pushing new images when nothing has actually changed.

koloron 10y ago
> but it's still the best at what it does. If "what it does" means "build complex software projects" I think your claim is rather debatable. GHC is currently switching away from make after having already overhauled its make-based build system two times: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ghc-shake/ghc-shake.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...