Re: New build system: copy-build-system

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

>> We've got quite a few packages that simply copy some files from their
>> source to the output.  Examples include `debian-archive-keyring`,
>> `0ad-data`, `gcide`, or `rofi-pass`.
>>
>> Those packages end up being tedious to write because we need to rely on
>> the trivial-build-system, also known as "the least trivial of them all!" :)
>>
>> What about adding a "copy-build-system" which has one argument, say an
>> `#:install-plan` that takes a list of source-destination pairs?
>
> This sounds like a good idea.  We did something similar when the
> font-build-system was added to simplify the tedium of copying files.

Perhaps some of these can just be plain <origin> records if they are
only used internally (not as packages on the command line).

For the other cases, ‘copy-build-system’ may prove useful!

Ludo’.