Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-06-03 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
Ok, pike-git.lysator.liu.se:craft.git is now available. I have some uncommitted work too, maybe I'll clean it up and commit it later.

Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
It hasn't actually reached the stage "useful" yet; the implementation consists mostly of some basic framework stuff, the rest is just design. :-)

Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote: >I could move the repository to pike-git.lysator.liu.se (it's currently >on svn.lysator.liu.se) if there is interrest in it. Well, it's not the highest on my list of priorities, but it sounds useful, so please copy it ov

Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
>There's nothing inherently wrong with that, I think, except that Makefiles >don't do well in a hierarchical setting; Which is one of the main disadvantages of make that craft adresses. >and yes, I would tend to agree, >one would like to get away from having to create a Makefile in every >subdir

Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote: >cmake doesn't try to replace make, it actually generates makefiles. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, I think, except that Makefiles don't do well in a hierarchical setting; and yes, I would tend to agree, one

Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
cmake doesn't try to replace make, it actually generates makefiles. jam doesn't try to replace autoconf, it uses autoconf.

Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote: >We have considered not using autoconf, yes. We started on our own >project called "craft" (basically merging make and autoconf so that >you could have depndencies on not only between files but on other >resources as well), but i

libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
I could move the repository to pike-git.lysator.liu.se (it's currently on svn.lysator.liu.se) if there is interrest in it.

libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) @ Pike (-) developers forum
We have considered not using autoconf, yes. We started on our own project called "craft" (basically merging make and autoconf so that you could have depndencies on not only between files but on other resources as well), but interest faded. I might actually be interested in looking at that again.

Re: libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >Just in case someone happens to be working on it, I'm in the process of >implementing a native interface to libusb-1.0 from within Pike. Any implementation advice or feature requests are welcome. So far, I've already decided to skip/drop the blocking interface, and

libusb and autoconf

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
Just in case someone happens to be working on it, I'm in the process of implementing a native interface to libusb-1.0 from within Pike. The sad part is that actually programming the interface is not that much work, generating proper configure.in files *is* however a big PITA. Has anyone ever consi