On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 06:00:37PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
>
> > > That's why I prefer an purely descriptive paragidm (= subset of
> > > delcarative, but practically no logic): a buildfile should only
> > > describe the package's structure (eg.: "i have some executable foo
> > > which consists of source [...] and imports libs [...]), so the
> > > buildtool (and user's config) can cope with it all.
> >
> > This was also the plan for cmake when it was started. But it turned
> > out that this is not enough, and for more complex projects some
> > programming logic is required. So cmake turned from quite declarative
> > to quite imperative over time.
>
> And so you just open the Pandorra's Box again ;-o
> As soon as you try to build some one-fits-all-solution, you'll
> sooner or later run into similar problems as autoconf has.
>
> I won't to that w/ my TreeBuild. It is intentionally limited on
> easily structured packages. People should either structure their
> packages properly use something else ;-P
For simple packages autoconf+automake+libtool is already near at your
descriptive paragidm.
And despite all nasty details of autoconf/automake/libtool they also
have advantages:
- they are quite powerful when you know how to handle them
- they allow to build your software on non-Linux systems
- they are the de-facto standard in the open source world, and everyone
building open source software knows them
And the last point is a very important one:
For me as someone who is often compiling software your plan of creating
yet another build tool I have to handle does not sound like a good idea.
> cu
cu
Adrian
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