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theFco on Feb 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chromium Notes: Ninja, a new build system

Chromium still uses a gnu make based build system. He did this "for fun" to investigate a potentially faster way. I am very envious, my "for fun" activities never result in something so cool.

MikeGerott on Feb 7, 2011 [–]

IMHO it would be much more productive to use/improve existing build tools. Such as Tup http://gittup.org/tup/

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