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Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Steve Long wrote: |
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>> Something that's been discussed on IRC is the idea of a .pbuild file, |
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>> written in Python. I can also think of .cbuild (C) .Cbuild (C++) .sbuild |
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>> (Scheme) .hbuild (Haskell) and .jbuild (guess;) as being of immediate |
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>> use, (although I accept I might be the only one interested in the first |
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> I do not see any improvement per se. |
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Well I agree C and C++ aren't very useful, since they are more than |
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adequately covered by make et al. With the others, there are setup tools |
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like distutils in the language already. |
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>> How do others feel about such an addition? |
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> I think it's pointless. |
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Fair enough. It's intended to make it easier to write install scripts. |
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