Template::Toolkit. As far as I'm aware, template systems do not exhibit behavior themselves for creating targets.

The trouble is that most of the example applications you discuss sound a lot like things that could be easily done using a templating system -- and you probably would've done it that way if you were used to thinking in those terms instead of being used to messing with make files.

make is a pretty odd tool, and myself I'm not that sure that the make idiom really has all that much going for it... and the one thing it does have going for it is sorting out dependencies (e.g. if you need to do this, do that too; if that's been done already, don't bother with it) and you seem to have decided to skip that feature for this tool.

Just for arguments sake, what would happen if you wanted to just write a perl script to drive the process without using Plake? Wouldn't it be something like: 

my $target = shift;
my $password;
if ($target eq 'dev') { 
  $password = 'real password';
} elsif ($target eq 'release') { 
  $password = 'change me';
} else { # default 
  $password = 'change me';
}
do_build( $password );

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In reply to Re^3: RFC: Plake, a target-based file assembler by doom
in thread RFC: Plake, a target-based file assembler by arbingersys

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