unchanged: Handle files which do not change for GNU Make about build-shootout

[ndmitchell]

It sounds like no one would write the output qake generates directly in Makefile, and as such qake is better thought of as a separate tool which (as an implementation detail) generates Makefiles? If so, having entries in the shootout for qake seems quite reasonable. As soon as you are shelling out to hashing sources, it sounds like you've gone quite a bit beyond make.

[mkpankov]

You're probably right that no one would write this by hand. These multi level macros are quite unwieldy.

As for separate entry for qake - it's really prototype quality, so I doubt it would be useful. Don't want to mislead anyone into production use of the thing I implemented for fun and for the sake of it.

Thanks for offering, though! :)

[ndmitchell]

The shootout is really about the expressive power of the tool, not production quality, so I don't think it's misleading (and you can state "not production quality" at the top if you want). It's entirely up to you though.

[mkpankov]

Let me think about it for a while.

If I decide I'd like to add qake to shootout, should I just open a PR?

[ndmitchell]

Yep!

[mkpankov]

Fine, closing this then! :)