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Subject: Re: Specifying a target in a GPRBuild project file?
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:20:58 +0200
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Date: 2013-04-27T23:20:58+02:00
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(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 =C3=A9crit:
> The only profit from having worked on a Makefile or GPR project file i=
s
> 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 comm=
on
> 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 somethi=
ng  =

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 t=
o  =

not tell more).

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity