Am 18.10.2014 11:56, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
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.
I am aware of that and understand that you are sceptical. For that very
reason I propose a first step that just introduces a different notation
for our makefiles without (big) changes to the underlying build system.
The next step of actually replacing parts of the build system with
something better is certainly much harder and less likely to succeed.
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.
I do. But I need a week or two to set this all up.
Regards,
Andre
Regards,
Andrea.
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