Bug#683333: ITP: ninja-build -- small build system closest in spirit to Make

[Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>]

Hi Gary,

On Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012, Gary Kramlich wrote:
>  Ninja is yet another build system. It takes as input the interdependencies
> of
>  files (typically source code and output executables) and orchestrates
>  building them, quickly.
>  .
>  Ninja joins a sea of other build systems. Its distinguishing goal is to be
>  fast. It is born from the Chromium browser project, which has over 30,000
>  source files and whose other build systems can take ten seconds to start
>  building after changing one file. Ninja is under a second.

much better, thanks. Now I have a good idea what it does!


cheers,
	Holger