On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 04:37:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 02:07:54 UTC, Etienne wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 23:30:03 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
[...]
It took me way more than 2 hours to grasp how this build
process works. It wasn't until I had read through the whole
source code actually.
It's also a pain to edit. It's been suggested several times
that we change the build system (e.g. to use
https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae), but IIRC, Walter and
Andrei have generally been opposed to the idea of changing it.
It's one of those things that frequent contributors have more
or less sorted out and don't usually worry about much anymore
(aside perhaps from the rare occasions when they need to edit
the makefiles), whereas it definitely tends to bite folks who
aren't familiar with it. And building the documentation is that
much worse.
Tell me about it. I'm still not 100% sure what I need to do to
build the docs and only managed the 1st time at DConf 2015 with
Robert next to me telling me what to do.
Atila
