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Smart Perl Makefiles Now

Codefast Inc - http://www.codefast.com

Smart Perl Makefiles Now is the world's first smart, knowledge-based Perl "makefile" generator for replacing human makefile labor with smart software tools. It analyzes source trees and generates precision, multiplatform Perl "makefiles" (Perl code, actually) for sequential and parallel software builds that are optimized for the current source tree, platform, and build situation preferences. Here's a typical command line for performing a single-platform software build:

spnow go -x all

Smart Perl Makefiles Now reduces project makefile creation costs to effectively zero (to a few seconds of time), reduces makefile debugging and maintenance costs to zero, reduces makefile errors to zero, and reduces software build errors to near zero.

Smart Perl Makefiles Now replaces awkward shell/awk/sed/grep code with more powerful Perl code, so you can do more powerful things in your Perl "makefiles" than was previously possible. Perl is multiplatform by nature, so you don't have to maintain several platform-dependent versions of makefiles. Perl has better debugging facilities than Make does. Perl has a large online community and code base of coding examples too.

Smart Perl Makefiles Now stores project build knowledge in the system, and not in people, thereby reducing project risk by making software builds insensitive to employee turnover, individual skill levels, and human knowledge limits (where complex makefiles are of concern).

From the perspective of a team leader who manages software projects, the most noticeable effect of a smart Perl makefile generator is one of enhanced project smoothness and simplicity. It's simple to do software builds. Complex Perl build scripts are generated and executed effortlessly. Software builds require less work, and fail less often. Zero makefile errors occur. Developers can generate precision Perl makefiles in seconds. Software builds are faster because smart Perl makefiles can take advantage of parallelism in computing resources using Perl child process spawning techniques.

Smart Perl Makefiles Now runs on 20 platforms.

-- KevinJameson? - 06 Sep 2003