Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: >> Are there other things we use Makefile for in our current system >> that we are forgetting in this requirements section, like "running >> lint" or "running tests"? > > I was a bit torn on whether or not to add "running tests", mostly > because it was supported by all of the proposed build systems. But > that's probably not a good reason to not make this requirement explicit. If a magic build system can omit tests that it can prove (by looking at dependency graph) that they will not be affected with the change I made to this single source file "builtin/cat-file.c", that would certainly be welcome. We can dream for build system that specifically cater to and know intricate details of a language. We should also be able to dream of such a thing ;-) Thanks.
