From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 14:49:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA20184 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:49:50 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.142.36]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA20155 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:47:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA10110; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 07:56:52 +0200 Message-Id: <199504030556.HAA10110@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Christoph Kukulies cc: john@starfire.mn.org (John Lind), freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: BRL CAD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Mar 1995 18:43:30 +0100." <199503251743.SAA22460@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 07:56:51 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm still asking myself > what is so superior to 'cake' that it cannot be done by 'make'. Perhaps just historic that they still use it; before bmake & gmake & imake, the basic unix make was _basic_; way back when (perhaps 7 or 10 years?) I remember thinking cake sounded really nice, much time having passed, I don't know comparisons now, but it could be that the BRL-CAD folk thought so too once, & then it just stayed ? Julian S