On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:56:24PM -0500, Maspethrose7@aol.com wrote: > I am developing a program to automate the batch file-writing process for > cc65 compile scripts. It will run under DOS and Win32. Is this a good > idea? Would it benefit anybody? If so, more may be on the way. No, use should use make. It has several advantages over having a "batch file": * no stone-aged DOS things, platform independent, will work on UNIX systems and others and so too * you can avoid recompiling everything; with correct Makefile & dependencies in it, only the modified stuffs will be recompiled, and tasks which are dependent on it * It's much easier to maintain than a custom batch file or schell script (which is also not the best solution when we're talking about eg a UNIX system) * You can even use advanced things, like parallelism during the compile/build process to speed things up (however I don't think that it's a big advantage here, since cc65 projects can't be so "big" than compiling the Linux kernel for example ...) * make mechanism is designed for this purpose exactly since years, why would you write another not so flexible solution then? We can use our time to solve real problems not ones which are solved quite well already ... * it's used virtually in every major open source (and probably non-open source as well, of course) projects, it's easier to share/adopt/etc things from/to other projects * it's easier to see what's going on than checking through a batch file and so on ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Sun Nov 28 15:09:59 2010
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