Re: Setting file permissions on published files

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:15:10 -0400, François Pinard
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> BTW, things have been very slow here, and there haven't been many
>> updates on www.a-a-p.org.

>Each thing in its proper time, I guess.  It is a common misconception
>that free software needs active development for being good.  While on
>the other hand, it is true that a software under active development
>benefits from frequent releases.

It isn't much of a problem for me, since it works fine for me as it is
now (I've had no problems with it), and it is easily expandable for the
things I've needed it to do.

>> I use it all the time, and I hope it sticks around.  I haven't found
>> anything that even remotely comes close to what AAP can do, so I'm
>> also recommending it to everyone.

>I'm progressively starting to use it, so I receive your comment as
>an encouragement to continue.

I would definitely give it a good try if I were you. I haven't found
anything else I've wanted to use. I don't know if my build needs are
strange or what, but nothing else seems to be able to do what I need to
do as easily as AAP.

With AAP I can easily do things like generate multiple versions of the
same executables (from the same source files) without having to
recompile anything other than what is necessary, and with automatic
dependency generation for my source files. I can easily generate new
resource files dynamically from embedded Python scripts to link with
those executables, and I can publish the executables to their
appropriate locations when they are done. This is just scratching the
surface with AAP, but is already beyond the capabilities of most other
tools I've checked out.

>I too, hope that it will stick around
>for a while.  What is surprising, however, is the little acceptance
>Aap seems to have in the community.  I presume it is lost in the sea
>of competitors, and suffers from the prejudice quoted above.

I would think so. I also don't know why, since AAP seems to be so far
ahead of its competitors in many areas. I can't believe people can be
happy with stuff like Ant and NAnt.

SCons also seems to be popular, and on Windows people seem to be raving
about Finalbuilder. I don't get it.

>(It is
>ridiculous releasing for the only seek of releasing, or as some people
>do, merely to increase Sourceforge activity indices.)  From what I
>can see, Bram put a tremendous effort in Aap, and the result is quite
>interesting (I've chatted with users enough to know that an effort is
>no necessary guarantee of quality, but Bram is not any programmer).
>
>Happy, also, to see some activity in this list.  Not, once again, that a
>mailing list needs activity for being good, but at least, I feel a bit
>less like being the only user of Aap! :-)

I was afraid I was the only one. :)

-- 
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