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Re:Check that your Node.js project is well written, secure a... by davexunit on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:15AM (#8482224)
Any developer should know how to write basic shell scripts to glue things together. Not taking advantage of the excellent pre-existing unix systems tools is a huge mistake.
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Re:Check that your Node.js project is well written, secure a... by tokenizerrr on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:52AM (#8482388)
That becomes a problem if you also want to have your project to be buildable on Windows, and it seems silly to exclude one platform solely because your build process doesn't support it.
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Re:Check that your Node.js project is well written, secure a... by davexunit on Monday October 20, 2014 @11:21AM (#8482533)
Plenty of software that uses make and other tools is buildable on Windows.
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Re:Check that your Node.js project is well written, secure a... by Danieru on Monday October 20, 2014 @06:35PM (#8484922)
Windows does have nmake. Of course it is a horrible implementation of make but the basics work.
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