Re: about build environment development (was: declaring gbuild target dependencies)

2020-04-15 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:15 PM Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > > On Apr 15, 2020, at 3:01 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > > > > > We are also thin on new contributors, and I recall you saying they're > > largely scared off by the current build system. > > > > Two points: > > 1. I doubt that by the

Re: about build environment development (was: declaring gbuild target dependencies)

2020-04-15 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Apr 15, 2020, at 3:01 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > > We are also thin on new contributors, and I recall you saying they're > largely scared off by the current build system. > Two points: 1. I doubt that by the time we finish porting to a whole new build system, we will even have

Re: about build environment development (was: declaring gbuild target dependencies)

2020-04-15 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 6:46 AM Peter Kovacs wrote: > If one wants to tap in our build system he needs to understand Perl, > shell, make, ant, XML, configure, ... > > This is just way to complicated, especially if you want to bring in an > IDE to ease code development. > > > Damjan is not very ha

about build environment development (was: declaring gbuild target dependencies)

2020-04-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
If one wants to tap in our build system he needs to understand Perl, shell, make, ant, XML, configure, ... This is just way to complicated, especially if you want to bring in an IDE to ease code development. Damjan is not very happy with the features gmake offers. I am not sure where exactl