On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:07:34AM +1200, Blair McBride wrote: > On 22/08/2012 5:58 p.m., Mike Hommey wrote: > >>+1 for Lua - it seems perfect for this. For #1, I find it far easier > >>>to read (and write) than Gyp, when it comes to things like > >>>conditionals. For #8, we could just ship the entire runtime in the > >>>tree for Tier 1 platforms (its small enough!), then its only an > >>>additional dependency for the 0.01%. > >But then, you have a chicken and egg kind of problem, where your build > >system depends on building something... > > When I say "runtime" I mean the actual pre-built runtime, not the source.
Which you then need to ship as a windows binary, an osx binary, and a linux binary. And that other platforms need to build or install separately. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
