[MLton] MLton build system portability

[Ville Laurikari]

(I'm changing the subject and creating a new top-level discussion
thread to avoid cluttering the original discussion).

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:38:49AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> My basic line is: Mlton developers should think seriously
> about getting rid of all Unix tools, especially make
> and bash, because these two are major obstacles to
> portable building.

Can you elaborate on how GNU make and bash are worse (for portability)
than Python?  It seems to me that both GNU make and bash have been
ported to an even larger collection of platforms than Python.

Python is of course a real programming language and superior in that
sense.

Did you perhaps mean that it's easier to write a portable build system
in Python rather than make+bash, not the portability of make+bash as
such?

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