Re: [chat] portable scripting

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, invisible ink wrote:
>Jamie Wilkinson:
>
>> This one time, at band camp, Andre Pang wrote:
>> >Crikey.  As standard as the autotools are, it's remarkable they work at
>> >all considering all of this bizarre whacko behaviour ...
>> 
>> I (heart) autoblah. ;-)  I can't even remember how to write a normal
>> makefile!
>> 
>> In fact, automake does such cool things (like make dist, make check) that
>> even when linux achieves world domination everyone will still be using
>> them.  They'll just be a lot simpler.
>
>I kind of wondered about the concept of "we won't need them when we achieve
>world domination"... What on Earth would we be using? ANT?

I met Ant today.  "We wrote Ant because Make ties you to the OS, forcing you
to use shell like syntax and calling external programs.  Ant removes this
restriction by using JAVA OBJECTS!!!"

Yes, sure.  Now instead of being tied to the OS I'm tied to the JAVA
VIRTUAL MACHINE!

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