Martin McClure <martin at hand2mouse.com> wrote:
> At 3:13 PM -0800 1/22/02, John M McIntosh wrote:
> >
> >Project Builder is a gui front end to the underlying GNU tools. It's 
> >*painless* to use for macintosh people, driving them into gnumake if 
> >they've never done unix programming before is a bit much. Right now 
> >I can expect a hypercard programmer to be able to compile the VM and 
> >actually understand what's and or how to drop a plugin if he doesn't 
> >want it. I'm not sure I could say the same if he had to mess with a 
> >make file.
> 
> Project Builder is indeed easier (though I feel like I don't 
> understand what it's doing as well as I do with make) so I do 
> recognize that point in favor of PB.
> 
> Make, however, is more portably scriptable, which could let us 
> automate VM and plugin building well beyond where they are now, and 
> thus lower the barrier to entry (which is still pretty high for those 
> like me whose C development experience is limited.)
> 

GNU make is only somewhat scriptable, and an arbitrary make isn't
necessarily scriptable at all.  It's much nicer to "script" using Squeak
if you can.  If you can't, Bourne shell is nice.  Perl would be
terrific, too, if it runs okay on Macs (no idea).



-Lex