Hi,
When I created Chronicles, I did so as a branch from the webwml
repository very deliberately, so that there was a possibility that any
improvements I made in the build harness could be contributed back.
In my limited time poking at it, I've had some thoughts about how it
could be made more manageable. However, if the future is for it to be
binned, it's hard to gauge whether this would be wasted effort.
In particular, the current build harness makes use of recursive
makefiles. I generally agree with the arguments made in "recursive make
considered harmful"[1], in particular, I've found it would be very
useful if the top-level Makefile had object-visibility of the final
targets several layers deeper.
However moving away from recursive-make would be a pretty major
undertaking, which would be of limited utility depending on whether it
would be appreciated upstream in the medium-term, prior to moving to
Hugo, and how long that medium term might be. What do you think?
Are there any other pain points/nits with the current harness that fixes
for which would be welcome and worthwhile?
Thanks!
[1] https://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
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