Re: about build environment development (was: declaring gbuild target dependencies)

2020-04-15 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:15 PM Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > > On Apr 15, 2020, at 3:01 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > > > > > We are also thin on new contributors, and I recall you saying they're > > largely scared off by the current build system. > > > > Two points: > > 1. I doubt that by

Re: about build environment development (was: declaring gbuild target dependencies)

2020-04-15 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Apr 15, 2020, at 3:01 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > > We are also thin on new contributors, and I recall you saying they're > largely scared off by the current build system. > Two points: 1. I doubt that by the time we finish porting to a whole new build system, we will even

Re: about build environment development (was: declaring gbuild target dependencies)

2020-04-15 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 6:46 AM Peter Kovacs wrote: > If one wants to tap in our build system he needs to understand Perl, > shell, make, ant, XML, configure, ... > > This is just way to complicated, especially if you want to bring in an > IDE to ease code development. > > > Damjan is not very