Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 07:56:51 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: john@starfire.mn.org (John Lind), freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: BRL CAD Message-ID: <199504030556.HAA10110@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Mar 1995 18:43:30 %2B0100." <199503251743.SAA22460@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 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
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