How does smk compare with make, and what are the comparable solutions

Differences with Make

Make is an old, succesful and mature tool, able to do lots of stuff that Smk don't even dream of. From that point of vue, there is no comparison, full stop.

Nevertheeless, this table provides some informations that may help to understand in which case you should choose Smk!

Smk	Make
Smk aims at optimizing the run of simple processes	Make can do really complex things
The command is run if at least one the targets does not exist, or if any of the sources has been modified since las run	The command is run if at least one the targets does not exist, or is older than any of the files it depends on
Smk stores previous run information in a local hidden files. Those info are available thanks to -rl	Make don't store run information.
Smk observes real dependencies thanks to strace / ptrace, and is unlikely to miss something	Make rely on Sources and Targets description provided by users in the Makefile
Smkfile are as stupidly simple as possible	Usual Makefiles may be easy to understand, or just a nightmare
smk is faster to type, it has only three letter	make has four :-)
If no smkfile is given on command line, smk checks for existing runfiles. If there is only one in the current directory, smk pick it up. So, feel free to use a descriptive name for your smkfiles, it will still be handy.	If you don't want to give the makefile name on command line, it has to be named Makefile. Full stop.

other solutions

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