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Re:Grunt 1.0.0 released by wmil on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @09:23PM (#11435932)
Makefiles have some glaring issues that can't be easily fixed.

The big one is that they break if there are spaces in file or directory names.

Sure, you can argue spaces are bad practice. But they are common on OS X and windows. It's a little silly to use a build system that doesn't support them.

Re:Grunt 1.0.0 released by DiabloD3 on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:04PM (#11439666)
That isn't entirely true. It depends entirely on how you quote your filenames. But yes, historically, there's a lot of broken Makefiles that way.
Re:Grunt 1.0.0 released by k__ on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @06:17AM (#11437826)
Ah, didn't know that.