David Craven <[email protected]> skribis: >> I’m not sure what a ‘phase-build-system’ would look like, if not like >> ‘gnu-build-system’, but it’s an interesting idea to explore. > > I think you are right, it would look exactly like the > gnu-build-system. I think my issue wasn't technical but psychological. > It feels like other build-systems aren't first class citizens, but > that's a minor issue and wouldn't change anything worthwhile.
OK. >> Dave Thompson recently suggested that maybe phases could be first-class, >> i.e., directly exposed on the “host side”, which is indeed a valid >> design question. Another thing worth exploring! > > Sounds interesting. Did he provide an example of what that would look like? I don’t think so, but maybe they’ll have to now? ;-) >> The ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’ branch is still around and I plan to look >> into it again… > > I was impressed by how easy it was to rebase it after 1.5 years! If you rebased it and there were no suspicious conflicts, feel free to delete + push! Thanks, Ludo’.
