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