Comment on Tool ideology

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:13:25 GMT

Somehow, most buildsystems for complex packages run make with changing working directories. Even in single script using subshells, it is trivial to save some effort with changing directories without complicating the code.

It is a deployment helper, not a single-package build system, so it has to do some work with numerous checkouts of dependencies. It is more natural to write some parts of code to run inside working directories of individual packages.

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