Russel,
I don’t know SCons. Do you like it? Do you have good examples of using it
with Chapel? I rather hate make, but it’s all I have until Mason is ready for
prime time.
Thanks!
b
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May All Your Sequences Converge
> On Mar 22, 2018, at 7:35 AM, Ben Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Russel,
>
> >Whilst I really like the humour (but not humor :-) of chapel, mason, bricks,
> this is going to make searches using DuckDuckGo and other engines really quite
> hard. Religious institutions seem to have their SEO well organised, hiding the
> stuff we are really interested in.
>
> That is unfortunate. I believe Brad has looked into some SEO-related
> improvements lately. Hopefully that will improve over time.
>
> >I have to date been using SCons for building Chapel code, is the time now
> >right to switch to using Mason?
>
> That depends on how you intend to use Mason. If you're primarily using it as
> a build tool to replace SCons, and are sticking to a pure Chapel project, I
> would expect it to work pretty well for you. As Brian has mentioned, Mason
> only deals with native Chapel packages currently. So if you need non-Chapel
> dependencies for a package, you may need to wait until that is supported. You
> can get a sense of the current functionality from the Mason documentation[1],
> feature roadmap[2], or just by trying it out. If you pursue the latter, we'd
> love to hear your feedback.
>
> >Is Mason turning out to be Cargo but repurposed from Rust to Chapel?
>
> Mason's design was influenced by Cargo among some other package managers. I
> imagine it would be easy to pick up if you were already familiar with Cargo.
>
> ~ben
>
> [1] https://chapel-lang.org/docs/master/tools/mason/mason.html
> <https://chapel-lang.org/docs/master/tools/mason/mason.html>
> [2] https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/7106
> <https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/7106>
> From: Russel Winder <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 6:29:04 AM
> To: Chapel_Users
> Subject: On Nomenclature
>
> Hi,
>
> Whilst I really like the humour (but not humor :-) of chapel, mason, bricks,
> this is going to make searches using DuckDuckGo and other engines really quite
> hard. Religious institutions seem to have their SEO well organised, hiding the
> stuff we are really interested in.
>
> I have to date been using SCons for building Chapel code, is the time now
> right to switch to using Mason? Is Mason turning out to be Cargo but
> repurposed from Rust to Chapel?
>
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