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diff --git a/devel/ftjam/pkg-descr b/devel/ftjam/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7848c4b4c76 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/ftjam/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[ excerpt from developer's www site ] + +Jam is a small open-source build tool that can be used as a replacement +for Make. Even though Jam is a lot simpler to use than Make, it is +far more powerful and easy to master. It already works on a large +variety of platforms (Unix, Windows, OS/2, VMS, MacOS, BeOS, etc..), +it is trivial to port, and its design is sufficiently clear to allow +any average programmer to extend it with advanced features at will. + +The main differences between Jam and Make are the following: + +- Jam uses "Jamfiles" instead of "Makefiles". +- Jamfiles do not normally contain toolset-specific rules or actions. + They're thus portable among distinct compilers +- Jamfiles are a lot simpler than Makefiles to write and understand, + while providing the same functionality, and much, much more !! + +WWW: http://freetype.sourceforge.net/jam/ + +-- lioux@FreeBSD.org |