starlet wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 5:30 am
Thanks, I'm aware of the above; I was looking for some war stories around that. For example,
I download a package I want to play with, but it uses MMS. So, I just run it with MMK (since I no
longer use MMS) - what can happen? Moving away from proprietary tools is a great feeling,
but, if it requires extra work every time, it may not be worth it.
It all depends, of course, on the features used. I didn't even know about the /EXTENDED_SYNTAX stuff Steven mentioned, so I've obviously never used it and didn't know MMK didn't fully support that. (The /EXTENDED_SYNTAX support that is there was added by Tim Sneddon a few years ago. I think that was always considered a work-in-progress.)
All I can say is that I don't remember ever encountering a DESCRIP.MMS file that had to be modified much, if at all, for use with MMK. But Steven provides a good example that doesn't work.
Thanks. I've never made the time to try to correct all of the links and dead email addresses there.
I always intended to update MMK with the version that Tim Sneddon did (the version on GitHub), but Tim had more work he planned to do, but, last I knew, hasn't had time to release those changes.
I just edited the entry for MMK to remove Matt's email address and to point to GitHub instead of madgoat.com. Thanks.
Thanks Hunter for the port to x86_64!
If I don't release it sooner, I'll release it as soon as there are native compilers on x86_64!
Hunter
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I've updated the MMK kit in my FILESERV Archive to the current V5.1. The .ZIP file contains VMSINSTAL kits for MMK V5.1 for VAX, Alpha, and I64.
Hunter
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sms wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 11:18 am
[ITS $ mmk /id
%MMK-I-IDENT, this is the MadGoat Make Utility V4.1-1
-MMK-I-COPYRIGHT, Copyright (c) 2008, Matthew Madison. See LICENSE.TXT in distr
ibution kit for license information.
Have you tried MMK V5.1? Because it supports /EXTEND. I haven't tested your example, but FINDSTRING is supported by that version.
I just updated MMK in my Archive to MMK V5.1.
https://vms.process.com/ftp/vms-freewar ... rv/mmk.zip
Hunter