On Sat, 23 May 2015 17:53:27 -0700 Ming Zhao <mzhao at luminatewireless.com> wrote:
> bazel(http://bazel.io) is the open sourced version of Google build > tool, and it has proved itself is a nice solution for monolithic > server side development. In our company, we use both to build our > products and it greatly reduced the hurdle of rolling out any change > because we put the whole DPDK source code into tree and the build > process can easily produce final binaries at any point(i.e. we can put > a fix to DPDK code and the build process will always produce > up-to-date binary based on the change). > > We pushed all our changes to github in "bazel" > branch(https://github.com/mzhaom/dpdk/tree/bazel) in case any one > wants to try it. At the moment, due to the complexity of setting up > bazel BUILD files to handle different compilation settings, we are not > actively pursuing to integrate these changes back to upstream. But > I'll be happy to answer any question and provide help in case anyone > wants to do so. > > Thanks! Thanks for doing this, but please don't try and convert us. As an experience Unix/Linux person, new glitzy build systems are kind of a sore point. If you can make it work for you great, but let's keep the DPDK as simple as possible.
