I agree that one build system won't fit all projects. It seems better if the build system supports the packaging mechanism than the other way around.
Laca On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 08:24 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Darren Kenny wrote: > > Personally, I would have liked the IPS system to have also included a new > > OpenSolaris build system too, like Debian packages do, which would be used > > for > > *all* packages, but that's not how it's done right now, and I don't know if > > there is any intention on going that way unless the community really push > > for it... > > You probably wouldn't like it if it did though, since being designed by people > with most of their experience in ON, it would be designed to match the way > they build - build the entire source tree, install into a proto area, and then > build packages from that using fixed lists of files in each package - and not > the way JDS or RPM build. > > The problem with one build system remains that we don't have one build style > all the parts of OpenSolaris agree on. > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
