Re: Potentially Predatory Pre-Announcement of Possible Vaporware (zinq-djbdns-0.01)

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:28:00PM -0600, Mark Johnson wrote:

> He had a beef or three with make, which seems to have been the
> inspiration for redo:
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/redo.html

Sadly, 'redo' does not exist as a publicly available project.

William Baxter's "build" creates similar Makefiles:

  http://www.superscript.com/build/intro.html

I think there was another similar project from one of the usual DJB
list-goers, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.

I have a similar tool which I have been using for a number of years but
never released. It follows the DJB style of "just in time
configuration", but it differs from 'redo' in splitting build into two
steps: creating a portable Makefile from rule templates, and running
make. Packages would ship with the portable Makefile, and only the
maintainer would need the tool (similar to djb-ware). Rule templates are
very flexible and written as Perl snippets. If anybody is interested, I
would be happy to share the code.

-Peff