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From: | Herbert Snorrason |
Subject: | Re: [xougen] Build System |
Date: | Sun, 07 Dec 2003 15:25:28 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031027 Thunderbird/0.3 |
Andri Yngvason wrote:
As do I. The idea, however, as one *very* critical drawback: It means *WE* are going to have to maintain it, by ourselves. That's the very reason Imake is the incomprehensible monster it is today. And that's why Jam is placed one step above "own" in my list.I like the idea of constructing our own build system.
Lisp is immensely powerful, very 'beautiful' (for some definition of the word), and incredibly rare. Installing a Common Lisp implementation for the sole purpose of building Xouvert is going to piss some people off. That's the only flaw I can see in the idea.Jonathan had the idea a while ago to create a LISP build system and mentioned it on the IRC channel.
Yeah. Doing the make system reconstruction would be most sensible in a seperate branch, whichever way we choose.Maybe we could take advantage of the branching system in arch and make a seperate branch around which we could construct a LISP build system.
It is. Very. That's why Emacs uses it. (And *don't* reply to this point, thankyouverymuch. I don't want a holy war of any kind.)I by the way don't know LISP but I think it's pretty cool. :)
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