Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs

[BTuin]

Le 21/05/2023 à 19:24, Jim Porter a écrit :
> This loos interesting. I've actually been working (though not much 
> lately) on a similar project by the name of "taco" (Tool Aware 
> COmpilation[1]): https://github.com/jimporter/taco

Nice, thanks for letting me know!

> I haven't had time to look over your project in detail, but I see a few 
> main differences. The biggest one is that taco divides the build process 
> into mostly-independent stages. For example, an Autotools project uses 
> three stages: preconfigure (generate "configure" from "configure.ac"), 
> configure (generate "Makefile" from "configure"), and build (run the 
> Makefile). This way, other build configurators that generate Makefiles 
> can just piggyback on the "Make" builder for the actual compilation.

Interestingly I already thought about chaining build systems, but I 
wasn't sure how to implement it.
Unfortunately the main drawback of your method is that you can't easily 
switch between a debug or release mode (if I understood your code 
correctly).
Also, what if an intermediate step is used in two different context, 
both with different next step?

I thought of something with a list of targets names, but I'll need to 
think more deeply.
Currently you could achieve the same manually, but I agree it's not very 
convenient.