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Subject: Re: Common Configuration Settings (was: Ada for 1st year students)
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On 16 Okt., 11:42, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> How about a set of rules covering common settings
> for configuration management in a compiler independent
> fashion?
>
> For example, the set could cover the Cartesian product of
> the usual suspects, such as directories to be included,
> the target platform, debugging, assertions and checks, ...
> Once a few basic rules are there, it should be easy to
>
> (a) transform the rules into compiler specific syntax
>
> (b) have rule transformation use host OS conventions
>
> (c) allow for compiler specific additions
>
> We would not have to learn yet another ad hoc language.

Aha, wouldn't we need some language for this? Python, Perl, Ruby, ...
This looks like another ad hoc language for me. There was some reason
why APSE did not evolve.