On Thursday 28 June 2001 15:43, Glen Starchman wrote: > You know what I really like about Makefiles? They are completely > archaic. It's true... I like having to write inline shell code that > is quoted weirdly and lines that end with a \. ;-) I know what you mean - I felt the same way when I started to get to grips with awk! There's just something quite awesome about the simplicity of Jamfiles though. > Points taken, Tony. However, until Matz decides to support Jam for > the mkmkf.rb stuff I guess it is a moot point for the Ruby > community at large. Mind you, I am not *for* such a change. Indeed. It's just food for thought really but your comments are appreciated even if we agree to disagree. Tony. ===================== Tony Smith tony at smee dot org =====================