[coyotos-dev] Change to Coyotos build passes...

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:34 +0100, Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
> Trey Boudreau a écrit :
> 
> >
> >Why recurse at all?  One can configure Jam/MR, SCons, and even lowly GNU
> >Make to build entire projects larger and more complicated than Coyotos
> >without recursion.
> >
> Supported: "Recursive Make Considered Harmful", Peter Miller,
> http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

I'm aware of Peter's paper. The problem with his argument is that it
fundamentally doesn't scale.

Folks: recursive make is a religious argument. I'm not open to changing
that decision in the Coyotos tree.

shap