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Re: Getting rid of build tools
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Pjotr Prins |
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Re: Getting rid of build tools |
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Tue, 29 Dec 2015 02:47:23 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 09:06:40AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I agree. It is actually in line with Eelco Dolstra's thinking more
> than 10 years ago (he created 'Maak'), though he did not use Guile.
>
> I am not saying we don't need build tools altogether - I'll still use
> make and rake, for example. But we certainly don't need all the
> baggage that comes with the current set of 'complex' Makefile
> generation tools that are automake and cmake. I guess it should be
> somewhere in between :). Yes a configurable Guile solution would be
> excellent.
For anyone interested, Eelco's description of Maak, a functional make,
is here:
http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-submitted.pdf
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- Getting rid of build tools, Pjotr Prins, 2015/12/27
- Re: Getting rid of build tools, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/12/28
- Re: Getting rid of build tools, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/29
- Re: Getting rid of build tools, Pjotr Prins, 2015/12/29
- Re: Getting rid of build tools, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/12/29
- Re: Getting rid of build tools, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/29
- Re: Getting rid of build tools, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/29
- Re: Getting rid of build tools, Pjotr Prins, 2015/12/29