Re: "Optional" variables ($?VAR)

On Sunday 17 August 2003 16:52, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> I'm afraid I do not like global switches like this.  I have a lot of
> experience what effect adding a global option has with Vim.  Main
> problem is that the behavior of a recipe depends on the environment.
> This has at least two problems:

Objections noted.

> Another solution would be to introduce a special command to read an
> automake file.  Then it's clear that some special things happen when

But that's even more bloat and code to maintain for something you don't really 
want at all. If you want AAP to replace automake and make, then you'd prefer 
people to write AAP recipes instead of automake files and then running AAP 
over top of them. Perhaps a transitioning-from-automake-to-AAP tutorial would 
be more useful (I'll write one once I figure out just how :) )

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