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UNIX might be standard but it doesn't make it cross platform. You might not like it but a lot of people develop on windows. Build tools that assume a unix envir
by IceSentry 3y ago
UNIX might be standard but it doesn't make it cross platform. You might not like it but a lot of people develop on windows. Build tools that assume a unix environment is present aren't a solution.
- rewmie 3y ago> UNIX might be standard but it doesn't make it cross platform. You might not like it but a lot of people develop on windows. I fail to understand what point you tried to make. There are already plenty of Make implementations for Windows. If you think that installing a third party tool like Task is ok, I don't see how doing the same with a Make implementation would exclude it as a valid alternative.
- IceSentry 3y agoI don't think using Task is better either. I was just replying to OP saying to just use unix tools. Unix tools aren't cross platform so they aren't a good build tool either.
- rewmie 3y ago> Unix tools aren't cross platform (...) I just pointed out there are Make implementations for Windows. And I'm not even mentioning WSL or MinGW. I don't know what else to say.
- cerved 3y agoPosix is cross platform. There's a reason it's easy to build stuff on mac os, free bsd and linux. Just because Windows decided to do everything differently to Unix and you decided to use Windows doesn't mean everything else has to adapt to be "cross platform". FWIW, GNU Make runs fine in Windows if you're allergic to WSL
- sofixa 3y ago> Build tools that assume a unix environment is present aren't a solution. Ut is a solution for the vast majority of cases. Even most Windows environments use WSL.
- tannhaeuser 3y agonmake has been part of MS Visual Studio and former incarnations such as MSVC since basically forever (1988?). And while the shell language recognized by command.com limits nmake's usefulness, tar and curl have been added to standard Win installations only recently.