On Mon, 2024-01-08 at 17:32 -0600, Gordon Pettey wrote: > There are at least a few generally language-specific build > tools/systems that can, if you're into masochism, be used to build > other languages (Gradle, Maven, etc.), and tools like Ant, which while > primarily used in Java projects is really just a Makefile with > different syntax and core functions in XML. Does making a new category > for explicitly general-purpose tools like Make and friends ambiguate > where the language-specific tools belong? Should other > non-Make-related packages be moved from their current dev-[language] > locations? > > Does dev-util/gyp really belong there, or since it is node-specific, > should there be a dev-js category? >
In all of my RFCs, I've tried to keep moving stuff out of dev- <language>/* altogether. In general, I'd leave it to the maintainers to decide where a package fits best. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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