[Docutils-develop] Re: docutils command line interface

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

bb...@ma... writes:

> On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 13:53 US/Eastern, 
> doc...@li... wrote:
  ^ Hmm, didn't know about that one.  Your email client using mbox From 
    lines or something?
> > OTOH, I'd probably wind up using a Makefile in which case unwieldy
> > command lines cease to be a problem.  In fact, using a Makefile has
> > some similarities with the above idea...
> 
> Makefiles kind of suck for this, as well

Of course.

> -- the syntax is extremely fragile and it is a build tool, not a
> configuration management tool.  There are other build tools growing
> in popularity.

But really, is

foo.html: foo.rst
        docutils $(CRAP) \
                 $(MORE_CRAP) \
                 foo.rst foo.html

visual: foo.html
        open foo.html

so hard?  I do this sort of stuff for latex all the time.

Cheers,
M.

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