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Re:Why Use Make by watmough on Sunday February 24, 2013 @06:55PM (#5276534)
Can't mod this up enough.

Microsoft's crazy-ass xml build mechanism is a giant pain in the ass, even compared to their old nmake (I think) tool.

The new system is a great example of a system where someone presumably said "Make is garbage, a big red flag, let's build something better."

Re:Why Use Make by quotemstr on Sunday February 24, 2013 @07:17PM (#5276611)
Yep: the parts of the Windows tree still built with nmake are much more pleasant to hack on than the parts that use msbuild.