brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (01/25/91)
I've finished version 1.00 of mick, a public-domain replacement for make. However, I don't want mick to suffer the same fate as make, where useful, high-level features are anything but portable. So: Are you dissatisfied with make? Are you interested in contributing to mick before it's released? Just send me a note at brnstnd@nyu.edu, and you'll get the latest version in exchange for your comments and ideas. (Please mention whether you have ftp.) I don't guarantee that I'll accept every idea or that mick will ever become popular, but at the very least you'll be free to use mick in your own projects. I aim for this summer to send mick 2.00 to comp.sources.unix. Please don't flood me with e-mail unless you have some specific ideas about what you'd like to see in project management software. I don't want early versions running around wild if the mick standard changes or if mick gains lots of additional features; no one is so desperate for a better make that he *needs* the latest versions of *everything*. mick should compile and run on any UNIX system without much trouble. There's a script to test for system features and change configuration files, and you can just ``mick tests'' to run a few random tests. Note that mick is not backwards-compatible with make, as it has a quite different philosophy. ---Dan ``mick. It's Australian for make, mate.''