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Bug#741029: ITP: redo -- a top-down software build system



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils+debian-reportbug@dieweltistgarnichtso.net> 

* Package name    : redo
  Version         : 0.0.1
  Upstream Author : Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
* URL             : http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/
* License         : AGPLv3+
  Programming Lang: Bourne shell
  Description     : a top-down software build system

redo is a software build system envisioned by Daniel J. Bernstein, which is 
simultaneously smaller, faster, more powerful and less complex than make. 
Build scripts are shell scripts, but can be written in almost any language.

<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/introduction-to-redo.html>

This implementation of redo is simpler and faster than the redo implementation 
by Avery Pennarun. While Pennarun's version of redo is written in Python, this 
version of redo depends only on the Bourne shell and standard utilities 
provided by the GNU coreutils or Busybox packages.

Caveat: This version of redo is missing the redo-ifcreate command, which 
creates dependencies on files not yet existing. Adding it should be simple.

As I am the upstream author, I maintain this version of redo. I expert 
maintenance effort to be low, as the software is essentially finished.

I probably need a sponsor for uploading the package.


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