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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: General purpose build tools (was: Re: how to tell gnatmake to
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>> [1]: http://omake.metaprl.org/index.html
>> [2]: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/
>> [3]: http://www.scons.org/
> 
> Good set of links, the question is why these are not so widely used in  
> comparison to simple make?

make is anything but simple.

The reasons why the better tools are not used more widely are the same
as the reasons why the better languages are not used more widely:

- inertia.
- ignorance.
- lemming mentality.

Sometimes inertia is a valid reason; it does not always make sense to
rewrite massive makefiles, even when they are recursive and bug-ridden,
because effort is better spent in other areas.  One example of this is
GCC.

The other reasons apply to new projects.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.