Gregory's Server@J12t is there not a modern successor to make? I’ve been working with NPM and RubyGems for more than a decade, the last time I used make was trying to revive an academic Fortran codebase from the 1990s, so my inclination would be to look for the successor. (I know there’s been some progress with e.g. dependency managers for C/C++.) If there isn’t a successor that does things like use JSON to specify dependencies, maybe I would use make, but I’d be tempted to make that successor
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@J12t yeah, it’s a pretty general tool for specifying a derivation tree, with an old-fashioned notation. I wonder if the missing link is a conversion tool, but I’d have to read up on the failed attempts to learn why none have stuck. Which I might want to do before choosing make for something new, but if they all failed for relevant reasons I might still choose make |
@ShadSterling Many have tried, none have stuck IMHO. Contrary to a common belief, make has nothing to do with compiling software. It just works for those kinds of dependencies. For FediTest, we use it to generate JSON files from JSON files and it's very convenient. But what if nobody can understand the rule system? (added: well, not "nobody". But what if many members of the younger generations can't ... and there is no replacement they understand instead ...)