Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!lakesys!jason From: jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple Demo Responses (Sort of... More Re: gsMake) Summary: Why "like" gsMake? Keywords: Demo technotes puppy-dog-tails Message-ID: <827@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 17 Jul 88 06:42:56 GMT References: <14045@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin Lines: 31 In article <14045@apple.Apple.COM>, keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: [Lots of nifty stuff regarding what will hopefully be happening...] [He then responds to someone who will, for the time being, remain ] [Anonamous (How, pray don't tell, does one spell that word?) ] > [A wish list of nice things] > >- A C source level debugger, this would be absolutely wonderful. [Yes, yes!] > >- A 'Make' program for APW (like GSMake) Why "like" gsMake? I'm really getting frustrated now regarding gsMake, as I've recieved 0 donations and 0 comments (save Mr. Rollin's comment that the developers there @ Apple would probably prefer rolling their own) about it. I'm more concerned with the lack of comments... I could take being told that gsMake is a piece of crap, but only if I knew WHY that was thought. Granted, gsMake isn't the most beautiful piece of programming in existance, but it beats hell out of typing the same (long) command line over and over. It's not the most expensive program running around these days, so it wouldn't seem that that's the problem... I was pretty happy when I got gsMake to be useful... I decided that I would write up some documentation for it, and send it out into the world, hoping that it would be useful to someone besides me (I use it almost all the time). I am very disappointed by the response... Not the sort of thing that encourages me to spend the time "prettying" things up a bit to prepare it for "the rest of the world." Pardon the tantrum, but I've had almost all I can take on this one... -- Jason - Not your average iconoclast