On 17/10/2014 Andre Fischer wrote:
improving the build system. I have in mind a "soft conversion" that gradually replaces parts of the existing build system, not a big push that takes years to complete and then breaks everything.
This seems a reasonable approach. But this is the n-th time that someone proposes a new build system. Can I ask at least if there is anything (in terms of knowledge, if not of code) that came out of https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_System_Analysis:capstone2013_windows_build that can be reused here?
The aim of that project was not reached, but still the analysis and discussion might be worth reviewing (probably you already did). And maybe there is some knowledge from that project that hasn't been documented yet.
If you don't object to this general plan then I would start the XML conversion with the prj/build.lst files as proof of concept. I would also start to write Wiki pages that explain in more detail how the current build process works, what its draw backs are, and how, in my opinion, it can be improved.
This is very good; had it come one month ago, we could have submitted it as a Capstone project for 2014 so that you would get a small team of students to mentor for a few months. But there might be other opportunities if you believe that new developers can work on this task without an excessive strain on you as a mentor.
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