Re: Specifying a target in a GPRBuild project file?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

(That's me who underlined in the quote below)
Le Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +0200, Georg Bauhaus  
<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.arcor.de> a écrit:
> The only profit from having worked on a Makefile or GPR project file is
> to have thought about it. If someone knows non-GCC configuration well,
> but does not know GCC's configuration mini-languages, **he or she will
> learn very little from either**. Note that he or she does not need to  
> learn
> the
> subject of configuring tools, they know that. But **the lack of a common
> configuration language** forces them to learn yet another vendor's  
> language
> for expressing common ideas.

(deep breath) I fully agree with you about the lack of a standard here.  
The actual state is more Bazaar than Cathedral. I wish there was something  
common here, but there is not, and you have to do with it and have to  
choose either GPRBuild, CMake, Scons or Makefile. By the way, that's not  
an issue only with configuration files, but with near to all software in  
the large: near to each is designed as if it was the centre of the world  
and was alone in the world (I have so much complaint about it I prefer to  
not tell more).

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“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University