I regret that I don't agree with you about make. I've made modest contributions to EUMM, so I know a bit about generating Makefiles. But make isn't really about macros etc; it's about dependencies, and only building what you need to (and concurrently at that where the dependencies permit). I think it's really, really good.

Before you mention it, so-called recursive make is indeed bad, but when I finish updating it, Make will treat cd $DIR; make as an oddly-spelled include, so it will have the whole dependency graph available to it, allowing full proper parallel builds. Until then, when developing PDL (with its literally 99 Makefiles in its tree) I rely on the parallel-build coretest job I constructed, ironically avoiding recursive make using recursive functional code.

And system configuration isn't, in my mind, supposed to be fun, but incredibly solid and reliable. My feeling about the described Ansible setup is that it needs a bit of refactoring, since Ansible is supposed to be possible to scale.

In reply to Re^2: "Magic tools" that take the fun away (Releng/DevOps/Cloud/Virtualization/Container/Server References) by etj
in thread "Magic tools" that take the fun away by hrcerq

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