Re: dependency scanner

Lew wrote:
> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>> In short I am *NOT IMPRESSED* with Java's ability to manage large 
>> projects,   In a way this is the same issue recursive make has 
>> http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
> 
> Funny, I don't remember anyone claiming that Java is a 
> project-management system.  I thought it was a programming language.  Do

> you blame C for not having the features of make, I wonder?

C does at least has a trivial way to find depends (#include)

> 
> Use Ant, of course.  Maven for things Ant can't.
> 

Neither seems to be able to manage non-Java projects and if one wants to 
have the project a part of a OS dist (or ****ts collection) then almost 
all of them only accept make compatible build scripts.   An other 
requirement I have is the ability to stich the source tree together from 
disjoint dirs (i.e. some of it is in a repo (the unmodified code) and 
some is in a local dir (the modified code)).   The only dependency 
management tool I have ever found that manages this in anything like a 
reasonable manner is cook 
(http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/software/cook/)
probally because it was 
written by the same person that wrote my SCM tool (aegis.sf.net).   The 
only other alternative I know of is something like unionfs which is 
horrible.  Oh forgot to mention cook also has an builtin Makefile 
generator in it so the OS ****ts/dist is happy.