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From: Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Info about Polytron Make
Message-ID: <17578@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Apr 89 18:35:00 GMT
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> Polytron is much nicer than Borland or Microsoft's make.  It offers
> many features that make is completely adaptable to any special 
> circumstances.  It supports the concept of <include> files so you
> can create boiler plate style make files (one of the products at my 
> company contains over 150 makefiles and over 1500 source files - 
> impossible to maintain this many files without flexibility.)
> 
> 
> 
> --  
> Eric Martinson - via FidoNet node 1:105/14
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Polytron may offer some additional bells and whistles, but Borland's make
(not thier integrated "project" facility) has supported file inclusion
and conditional directives since v1.0.  Yes, very handy for boiler plate
and producing multiple versions (debug, production, demo, etc.) from common
makefiles.  Best of all, it's free with the compiler.

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