[ODE] documentation initiative

[W.J. van der Laan]

> ... that aside, has anyone here used The Nebula Device 2
> (http://nebuladevice.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Nebula/WebHome)?
> Both revisions of its buildsys (as well as the buildsys for Nebula 1)
> operate through TCL, and generate all necessary workspaces for all platforms
> when the TCL is run, using current sources and easy-to-update .bld spec
> files for the various component packages that make up the library.

Have you looked at SCons?

http://www.scons.org/

It can generate files for various build systems (including various VC++),
does its own dependency scanning, and can be used as a build system itself
too. Furthermore, it is python based, a language that appears to be more
widespread than TCL.

Anyway, even a tool like this wouldnt take away the need for platform
maintainers. It still needs to be tested on all platforms, and to make
sure all used C code cleanly compiles et al.

Wladimir