Hi all,
I think i have reached a quality in the output of the bazel experiment
where i need to ask what are the next steps.
I personally have now a baseline i can work with, but that is not
helping everyone else.
I personally think that scons can be setup in a similar way. With more
coding on our part and less prefab structures that we find in bazel.
So I would like to know if everyone is on board for a bazel journey or
should I switch to scons push that.
Just as a reminder I pushed for bazel because i think it offers more
structures for AI approach, then SCONs.
It had nothing to do with the decision itself.
Now what is important to me is:
- separation of build, external libraries, our source, languages
- repeatable builds
- the ability to correctly sign on Mac and linux
- to have a propper build integration of pootle files.
- to be able to define multiple targets
OS × CPU × "age" (toolchain / deployment target / dep
ABI)
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ windows x86_64 VS2008 / WinSDK 7.0 / Python 2.7 ◀──
today │
│ macos arm64 clang / macOS 11 / Python 3.10 ◀──
trunk │
│ macos x86_64 clang / macOS 10.13 / Python 3.10
│
│ linux x86_64 gcc 7 / glibc 2.17 floor / bundled deps ◀──
community │
│ linux x86_64 gcc 12 / system glibc / system deps ◀──
debian │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
What is important that we support more a minimal language definition
then a build target.
This matrix view that bazel works with would allow us to build for
different targets multiple builds tailored to the system.
Making it easy if a community wants to integrate it to do the work, and
the different distro can cooperate upstream together.
Bazel can handle this. I am confident scons is in a similar spot.
I think with tools like bazel central, (similar to maven central) we get
a external dependency update integration from other volunteers at a low
cost.
in the end i would know what do you think?
Continue with the bazel journey?
Continue with the scons journey?
I would switch accordingly.
All the bast
peter
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