Re: A false dawn?

[Peter B. <pe...@id...>]

Istvan Marko <mi...@im...> writes:

> Dr J Pelan <J....@ga...> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Steven Heaney wrote:
> >  
> > > The http://www.modules.org/ front page was last modified in the first 
> > > few days of this year and states that work on Modules has resumed. 
> > 
> > I moved to 'cmod' and never looked back (http://www.lysator.liu.se/cmod/)
> > Not as sophisticated but suits my modest needs and is C source.
> 
> I just took a quick look at cmod. I like the simplicity, but it's
> module syntax is way too simplistic for our needs. Using a real
> programming language (even if it's TCL :-P) for the module
> descriptions is very helpful, sometimes even required. But our
> environment is quite complex (~90 modules, each with several versions,
> many dependencies, 5 supported platforms), I can see that cmod would
> do fine for smaller sites.

ceder (the programmer) has expressed interest in extending cmod if
people tell him what they are using and what they need.

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