On 12/03/2013, at 11:27 AM, john skaller wrote:
> Now, in general, I think there is a right way to handle this.
So in this rant there were no conclusions. Here's my tentative
conclusion:
pkgtool and scoop should be moved into the core build.
The reason is that the core build, in the longer term and
larger scheme of things, is only intended to be a bootstrap.
Scoop has to be IN that bootstrap for the simple reason
that it is the key architect OF the bootstrapping process.
You could look at this another way: the whole "core build"
should really be moved into "demos", so the
flx setup
which start off the process builds everything. Of course that
can't work without first having Felix :)
The initial version of scoop will self-mutilate.
That's because at the moment it isn't strong enough
to build everything in Felix.
To make that happen, we can start to move stuff OUT
of Felix into the litterbox. For example "sqlite3" is not
used by any essential tools.
Re2 IS used by flx, but only for options that aren't
needed for building Felix (namely the --regex option).
Similarly, Re2 IS used by flx_cp and that's an essential
part of the current install. But that's because the current
install has to install so much complex stuff.
Much of the documentation doesn't need to be in the
bootstrap. The webserver doesn't need to be in the bootstrap.
And really, the tests don't need to be in the boostrap either
(although we have to have them during development).
--
john skaller
skal...@users.sourceforge.net
http://felix-lang.org
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