[darcs-users] Conceptual questions about REPO s

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:09:52PM -0500, Jorey Bump wrote:
> Not only is a Makefile a handy tool for creating project-specific 
> utilities, it forces you to organize your code sensibly. A Makefile will 
> often contain evidence of how organized or fragmented your project is. 
> More importantly, it makes it easier to manage.

A makefile also documents the build procedure in a machine-checked way,
which makes a huge difference when you come back to a project (or paper)
after a few years!
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University