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The article has the following near the end: "To see more real-world examples of makefiles, see my [World Atlas](https://github.com/mbostock/world-atlas https:/

The article has the following near the end: "To see more real-world examples of makefiles, see my [World Atlas](https://github.com/mbostock/world-atlas https://github.com/mbostock/world-atlas) and [U.S. Atlas](https://github.com/topojson/us-atlas https://github.com/topojson/us-atlas) projects, which contain makefiles for generating TopoJSON from Natural Earth, the National Atlas, the Census Bureau, and other sources." I checked those repositories because the descriptions of the makefiles sound interesting, but I couldn't find the makefiles. Am I looking wrong?

Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
It looks like the author gave up on using Make with this commit: https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas/commit/8f92f6eb692d14753f8e7a54b96b4a956d6fb60a https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas/commit/8f92f6eb692d1...
- peatfreak 4y ago
  It kind of makes the whole article irrelevant. Like a house of cards that is build on a foundation of Make, but when you get to the bottom there are no actual Makefiles there.
  - throwaquestion5 4y ago
    It just means when the article was published, the need was real and make was useful. Context matters. Based on that commit they don't need to download the data to generate the .json file, so they don't, Make became irrelevant. If anything this shows that a tool can be really useful but you don't need to marry it. Don't use if you don't have to.
    - peatfreak 4y ago
      The whole point of the article is to discuss Make.
      - johannes1234321 4y ago
        Which isn't invalidated by a project having no need for it anymore.
        peatfreak 4y ago
        This makes no sense!
- throwaquestion5 4y ago
  More like they moved from the need of using Make to create the topoJSON to use prebuild ones with Node. In the package.json of that commit: > - "description": "Roll your own TopoJSON from Natural Earth.", > + "description": "Pre-built TopoJSON from Natural Earth.",

Mister_Snuggles 4y ago

It looks like the author gave up on using Make with this commit: https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas/commit/8f92f6eb692d14753f8e7a54b96b4a956d6fb60a https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas/commit/8f92f6eb692d1...

peatfreak 4y ago
It kind of makes the whole article irrelevant. Like a house of cards that is build on a foundation of Make, but when you get to the bottom there are no actual Makefiles there.
- throwaquestion5 4y ago
  It just means when the article was published, the need was real and make was useful. Context matters. Based on that commit they don't need to download the data to generate the .json file, so they don't, Make became irrelevant. If anything this shows that a tool can be really useful but you don't need to marry it. Don't use if you don't have to.
  - peatfreak 4y ago
    The whole point of the article is to discuss Make.
    - johannes1234321 4y ago
      Which isn't invalidated by a project having no need for it anymore.
      - peatfreak 4y ago
        This makes no sense!
throwaquestion5 4y ago
More like they moved from the need of using Make to create the topoJSON to use prebuild ones with Node. In the package.json of that commit: > - "description": "Roll your own TopoJSON from Natural Earth.", > + "description": "Pre-built TopoJSON from Natural Earth.",