Re: [ft] Jam Build Tool

[Chris Molozian]

I think "no longer maintained" answers my questions, thanks for the update.

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My quest for a cross-platform build tool that has a built in filesystem API and isn't a preprocessor for make (e.g. automake, cmake, premake... etc) is very interesting. I read an article on reddit.com/r/programming at some point that claimed there were "too many build tools already, people should stop writing new ones".

The problem with the vast majority of them (IMHO) is they solved the problem the author was trying to sort, but never quite get finished off into a general purpose build tool. They usually seriously lack documentation, require calls to platform-specific programs like "mkdir" or require you to write so much platform-specific conditional code (e.g. if(NT) { } else if(UNIX) {}) that maintenance becomes specialised to the one poor soul that wrote the script originally.
<tangent>

Anyway, I think I will look into jamplus, sorry to bother this mailing list.

Cheers,

Chris

PS: Maybe one day I'll add myself to the ranks of people that have written a build tool.


On 21/05/11 07:34, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

Ok, I'm confused. What's this got to do with FreeType?

because freetype has a modified version of jam, named FTjam, which
was written by the freetype devs.

And which is no longer maintained since David Turner has no more time
to work on it, AFAIK.


    Werner

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