Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-24 Thread Andre Fischer
On 23.01.2014 19:23, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Not quite a week ago I wrote about an idea to use XML files to store the declarative part of our makefiles: dependencies of libraries on source files, which resources are to be

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-23 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Andre; On 22.01.2014 23:13, Pedro Giffuni wrote: ... +1 Ninja We have seen it speed up things in some of FreeBSD's ports plus it is under an Apache License (which is probably not as relevant ... but is good). Do you know if anyone has written down their experience with porting to

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Not quite a week ago I wrote about an idea to use XML files to store the declarative part of our makefiles: dependencies of libraries on source files, which resources are to be created and so on. In the meantime I have

Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Andre Fischer
Not quite a week ago I wrote about an idea to use XML files to store the declarative part of our makefiles: dependencies of libraries on source files, which resources are to be created and so on. In the meantime I have found the time to do make (conduct?) an experiment. I am now able to

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Not quite a week ago I wrote about an idea to use XML files to store the declarative part of our makefiles: dependencies of libraries on source files, which resources are to be created and so on. In the meantime I have

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Andre Fischer
On 22.01.2014 14:45, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Not quite a week ago I wrote about an idea to use XML files to store the declarative part of our makefiles: dependencies of libraries on source files, which resources are to be created

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Andre Fischer
On 22.01.2014 14:58, Andre Fischer wrote: On 22.01.2014 14:45, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Not quite a week ago I wrote about an idea to use XML files to store the declarative part of our makefiles: dependencies of libraries on

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: On 22.01.2014 14:58, Andre Fischer wrote: On 22.01.2014 14:45, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Not quite a week ago I wrote about an idea to use XML files to store

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Andre, On 22.01.2014 07:06, Andre Fischer wrote: On 22.01.2014 14:58, Andre Fischer wrote: 8-8- I only know that it was developed by/for the chrome project [4] and that cmake has support for ninja as back end. Are we confident it will be around in 5 years? I worry (but

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Andre Fischer
On 22.01.2014 17:28, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi Andre, On 22.01.2014 07:06, Andre Fischer wrote: On 22.01.2014 14:58, Andre Fischer wrote: 8-8- I only know that it was developed by/for the chrome project [4] and that cmake has support for ninja as back end. Are we confident

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Excuse the intermission as I have been very busy lately on my other pet project ... +1 Ninja We have seen it speed up things in some of FreeBSD's ports plus it is under an Apache License (which is probably not as relevant ... but is good). Cheers, Pedro.

Re: Building sw/ with ninja

2014-01-22 Thread Andre Fischer
On 22.01.2014 23:13, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Excuse the intermission as I have been very busy lately on my other pet project ... You are always welcome. +1 Ninja We have seen it speed up things in some of FreeBSD's ports plus it is under an Apache License (which is probably not as relevant