Re: make similar to rsync -r -t --del

[Christof Warlich]

Am 05.01.2012 02:08, schrieb Mike Shal:

> You could try tup here (http://gittup.org/tup/)

Wow!

While I found a viable solution for now to solve my initial problem by 
just combining make and rsync (in short, Make does the updating while 
"rsync --existing --ignore-existing" deletes any stale files without 
doing any updates), tup seems to be one of the coolest projects that I 
saw for quite a while.

Reading the associated documentation was a breeze, excellent! And 
although it seems to be comprehensive, it is amazingly short. But what 
really knocked me off is tup's handling of dependencies: In my daydreams 
I always hoped for a GNU Make 4.0 that has internal support for 
dependency resolution, e.g. by combining it with the Audited Objects 
Build Tool (http://audited-objects.sourceforge.net/) from David Boyce. 
But now, tup seems to make that dream to be reality beyond any expectations!

I certainly will have to work with tup for a while to fully appreciate 
its concepts (as well as to understand its potential limitations), and 
though I definitely don't want to port all my good old GNU Make projects 
to tup, I'm sure I'll try tup for my next projects.

Thanks,

Chris