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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Build procedures
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:19:33 +0100
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> I seem to remember that within the last few months there was a
> posting here which mentioned a quote about how any project should be
> able to be built with a single command from a command line.
> Unfortunately Google search hasn't shed any light on this message.
> Does anyone know the quote? Who said/wrote it? Title of publication?
> The actual quote?!

Big thanks to Karel, who sent me this link...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

Which is exactly what I was looking for.

-- Martin