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Static site generators for building web sites

Posted Mar 8, 2013 17:06 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)
Parent article: Static site generators for building web sites

I've been using a Makefile for most of my websites for years now. For simple sites it works very well indeed.

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Posted Mar 15, 2013 2:36 UTC (Fri) by ssavitzky (guest, #2855) [Link]

Me, too. GNU make is a great language for site generation because of the ability to define rules and dependencies. I use perl scripts for the more complicated operations.

Another nice feature of make is the ability (which you get for free) to use different rule sets for different subdirectories of a site.