On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 Mar 2014 05:42, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote:
I became convinced that build was an inherently arbitrary-code
process, and not something to be universally handled by a declarative
system,
It wasn't an
I became convinced that build was an inherently arbitrary-code
process, and not something to be universally handled by a declarative
system, when I observed an autotools project under configuration. The
things spend ten minutes writing and compiling snippets of C code to
determine which features
On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote:
I became convinced that build was an inherently arbitrary-code
process, and not something to be universally handled by a declarative
system, when I observed an autotools project under configuration. The
things spend ten
On 27 March 2014 19:48, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
I do believe a declarative build system can work for the 90% case
though and should probably be the default option.
+1. Easy things should be easy, and hard things possible. Ultimately,
I want to say this is my project, here are the
On Mar 27, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 March 2014 19:48, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
I do believe a declarative build system can work for the 90% case
though and should probably be the default option.
+1. Easy things should be easy, and hard
On 27 March 2014 20:30, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
When I interface with an external library that may not be in the same
place on every system, I'd expect to say a bit more, but mainly just
look in location X, but the user can override this with a command
line argument.
That's the
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote:
On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote:
I became convinced that build was an inherently arbitrary-code
process, and not something to be universally handled by a declarative
system, when I
On 28 Mar 2014 05:42, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote:
I became convinced that build was an inherently arbitrary-code
process, and not something to be universally handled by a declarative
system,
It wasn't an accident that last years PyCon panel was subtitled setup.py
*install* must die
