Re: Implementing Automake in Scheme

[Norman Gray]

Bob,

On 2004 Aug 7 , at 15.26, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Norman Gray wrote:
>
> > I didn't know there was such a thing as the `GNU Help Wanted' list, 
> > but I've long thought such a project would be an excellent idea.  
> > It's a pretty natural language for such a task, and quite a few of 
> > the important bits of automake.in are, it seems to me, written in a 
> > pretty functional style anyway. And scsh is POSIX, portable, and 
> > pretty lightweight.
>
> Automake is already written.  It took years.

Yes and yes.  I didn't say that reimplementing automake would be a 
_sensible_ idea!

So that's `excellent' as code for a variety of things including `good 
fun' and `good language', but not including `good project management' 
or `good deployment of scarce resources'.  Unfortunately they matter 
too...

>  There must be something more useful for volunteers to work on.

...as you say.

All the best,

Norman


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