On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Kevin Ingwersen <[email protected]>wrote:
> That I noticed. But isnt it possible to use v8 with autotools or similar - > or does it really completely rely on gyp? > I myself can’t really make myself a big fan of gyp, when python is a > horrendus dependency o-o... > I agree that the python dependency is annoying, but gyp is (arguably) the most modern and established meta-build system. Aside from the fact that V8 defines it's build in gyp, gyp is revolutionary in that it defines a module system for building C libraries. GYP allows Node to generate files for working with various toolchains like visual studio, and generally abstracts a lot of difficult platform problems. It's cute to rewrite the system with a Makefile and linking to pre-generated V8 binary, but you're ignoring large engineering goals that Node's build system solves. Build systems are deceptively difficult. The depth of the problems are not apparent until you try to manage the build of a large x-platform app like Node. if you're interested in learning more about this, here is a couple random readings to get you started, including some mailing list links to what I consider to be the state of the art: the recently canceled 'gn' project. (gn, btw, is the proper way to work towards moving away from the python build dependency, but even then it would be very difficult) http://freecode.com/articles/stop-the-autoconf-insanity-why-we-need-a-new-build-system(why autoconf needs to die, written more than a decade ago) https://code.google.com/p/gyp/wiki/GypVsCMake http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ http://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/ninja.html https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/87jmrxg-oDM/Uyd41uqOItsJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/LQKLbTU-PuU/8akR_c84JZ8J Ryan -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
