On 31/07/09, 17:47:57, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] Buildbot:
> If there were a simplified published API, for the source tree, that would > accept and interface build systems other than gar, then perhaps Peter F > (and "others" *cough*) would be more inclined to check their stuff into > it. > for example, if there were a flat namespace in the source tree, and if it > were always possible to do > cd mgar/pkg/softwarename > #and then one or more of > make > make package > (?make clean?) > Define an absolute top-level "API" that doesnt require GAR Go further, just have a single entry point per project (not package) per version that can be run with exec. i.e., don't use make as the first step. You can call make from a script if you want, I suppose so too could one call a script from make but it's not as pure and simplistic. A problem with GAR is using excess make syntax which has to one of the less expressive ways of defining a procedure. James. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
