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

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:33:24AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 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

And I hope no reasonable person subjects himself to use of that POS.  The
deployed version should be marked obsolete.  However, I do have a complete
rewrite in private use now.  It provides functionality close to redo with along
with build extensions I require, like automatic borrowing of source files into
the current project.  It depends only on sh and awk but exhibits some
performance limitations that I don't care much about at present.  Provided that
the structure of your build does not change you can generate Makefile and gain
speed.  It lacks documentation but works essentially like build.  Please
contact me directly if you want a copy.

Cheers, W.