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Bram Moolenaar (of VIM fame) On A-A-P

Posted by timothy on from the makes-your-head-spin dept.

blab writes "I've posted an interview with Bram Moolenaar, of Vim fame, about his very newly released project A-A-P. Find out about 'super-make.'"

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  1. Ant is terrible by GusherJizmac · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ant is a weak scripting language, with a retarded syntax, and no useful looping or conditional ability. It is the poorest build system I've ever seen, outside of "build.bat". I'm really excited for AAP, and hope it takes off and becomes usable. I personally never had a problem with make, but it's not cross-platform (because it depends on the various UNIX utilities), and ant is just so pathetically bad, and shows no signs of improving.

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  2. Re: A-A-P portability (was: Oh?) by VimBoss · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Although A-A-P currently only works on Unix, it will work on other systems later. MS-Windows should not be too difficult to support. I actually didn't try it yet... Mac would be a bit difficult, because it doesn't have a system() function. How do you run a compiler then?