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Any developer should know how to write basic shell scripts to glue things together. Not taking advantage of the excellent pre-existing unix systems tools is a

• tokenizerrr 12y ago
  That becomes a problem if you also want to have your project to be buildable on Windows, and it seems silly to exclude one platform solely because your build process doesn't support it.
  • davexunit 12y ago
    Plenty of software that uses make and other tools is buildable on Windows.
  • Danieru 12y ago
    Windows does have nmake. Of course it is a horrible implementation of make but the basics work.