This is excellent news. Relatedly, I want to particularly say that I think moz.build files are great. The syntax and semantics are very clear. They're easy to modify. They handle both simple cases and complex cases well. They pretty much never get in the way, which is exactly what a developer wants from a build system. The contrast with Makefiles is... significant.
Nick On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > client.mk has existed since 1998 (https://hg.mozilla.org/ > experimental/mozilla-central-cvs/rev/0a5e1fa423bd). Before `mach`, > client.mk was the recommended way to build Firefox and perform other > build tasks. client.mk has rarely changed in recent years because the > build system maintainers have been working around it and because not much > has changed around how the very early parts of "invoke the build system" > work. > > The build system maintainers are making a significant push towards > supporting building Firefox without GNU make in this and future quarters. > > Since client.mk is a make file and we want to not require make to build > Firefox, client.mk is incompatible with our vision for the future of the > Firefox build system. Furthermore, client.mk represents an ancient piece > of build system infrastructure and its convoluted content creates > consternation and inhibits forward progress. For these reasons, I'm > announcing the intent to remove client.mk. > > If you have tools, infrastructure, workflows, etc that use client.mk - or > any direct use of `make` for that matter - please transition them to `mach` > commands and/or check with a build peer regarding your use case. You can > file bugs regarding client.mk dependencies against bug 1412398. > > Thank you for your understanding. > > _______________________________________________ > dev-builds mailing list > dev-bui...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
