Article:		Developing with Maven
Subject:		Oh Those Crazy Makefiles
Date:		2003-10-23 14:17:02
From:		anonymous2
Yes, the syntax of Makefiles was just 'horrible'. Having "target: dependsOn1 dependsOn2 dependsOn3", followed by a list of commands to build the target was just crazy. Having to write XML by hand is much saner. And now it sounds like I get to write my own XSLT and XML and Jelly. And once I've learned all those and got that all up and working, I can code in that language I'm supposed to be working in.. ..now what was it again anyway?

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• Oh Those Crazy Makefiles
  2003-10-23 16:56:36  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I'm thinking specifically of sytactically requiring the tab character before commands. Not four spaces, or any other kind of whitespace. Unless you also chose to use a make-aware text editor (like emacs) that would do the right thing for you, this was a staggeringly evil trap.