I've no objection to integrating LFS into Premake. I'm pretty sure there is an
open tracker item for it already.
-st.
On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:20 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
> 23.01.2012, 06:39, "Jason McKesson" <korv...@gmail.com>:
>> On 1/22/2012 12:28 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:
>>
>>>>> 1. LFS is not something big and it doesn't have external dependencies.
>>>>> It can be
>>>>> easily included into Premake, replacing custom code.
>>>>> 2. Ignoring well-tested and widely used 3rd party code is just NIH
>>>>> syndrome.
>>>> 1. LFS is still extra. It's external to Premake. You now have a
>>>> premake4.exe and a lfs.dll to worry about, instead of a single file you
>>>> can download and use.
>>> Not if you build LFS into premake's executable, which is probably very
>>> easy to do.
>>> wes
>>
>> And what is gained by doing so? Premake's `os.matchdirs` and
>> `os.matchfiles` is far superior than LFS's much lower-level constructs.
>
> Than we should contribute this code to LFS.
>
>> And while I'd like to be able to use full Lua pattern-matching on the
>> names rather than Premake's style, for 99% of cases, Premake's functions
>> do the job.
>>
>> Besides the fact that LFS is popular (and for esoteric things like
>> making symlinks) why should Premake use it?
>
> Well, it's "esoteric" for YOU, not for everyone (e.g., it's quite usual an
> useful operation for me).
> However I won't insist on use of LFS, I just want to say that we shouldn't
> ignore existing
> libraries provided by Lua community just to save 50K or so.
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