Schauble@mit-multics.arpa (Paul Schauble) (01/07/86)
I've used Polymake from Polytron for about a year now and been very pleased with it. The current version provides most of the features from Unix make. So far I haven't missed anything that it doesn t have. The next version will allow makefile to get environment variables and be integrated with PVCS, Ploytron's answer to SCCS. I have never used the Phoenix things, but consider their products to be laughably overpriced. Be careful of PC-Lint from Gimpel. Their current version believes that structure members are defined globally, not within the structure. This may or may not be a problem depending on the compiler you use. We use Lattice, and it's fatal. Gimpel also sold the C-terp interpreter as Lattice compatable when it again had global structure member names and a very different I/O library. Again, this is unusable for more than toy programs. They claim that these are fixed in the current version, but we have not yet received the update.