Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread pancake
On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Daniel Bainton wrote: 2010/1/25 pancake : I have been using make(1) and acr(1) for most of my projects for a long while acr seems to have the OS guessing quite bad. It checks if uname is the GNU version and then adds -gnu to the system type if it is? What if t

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread Andres Perera
I'd say stay away from cmake. It's very complicated. I'd like to try plan9 mk, but in the meantime, one more vote for good old make. Andres

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Bainton
2010/1/25 pancake : > I have been using make(1) and acr(1) for most of my projects for a long while acr seems to have the OS guessing quite bad. It checks if uname is the GNU version and then adds -gnu to the system type if it is? What if the system is a uClibc based one that uses the GNU version

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2010-01-25 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > 2009/11/24 Preben Randhol : >> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:39:04 + >> Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> >>> Why not? I think it should be possible to have very minimalist and >>> specialized CAS', they managed to do that in the 50s and 60s, why not >

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread pancake
anonymous wrote: Radare INSTALL says "The WAF build system is supossed to replace the ACR one.". This means that ACR is going to be replaced with WAF? In the section "HOW TO COMPILE" there is "Standard way" with configure && make && make install and "Alternative (going to be deprecated)" based o

Re: [dev] [wmii] notifications only work from tag 1

2010-01-25 Thread Yuval Hager
On Monday 25 January 2010, Kris Maglione wrote: > On 2010-01-14, Yuval Hager wrote: > > I am trying to send notifications using 'notify-send' (libnotify) and I > > found out they work only if they are sent from tag 1. > > otherwise, I get the following message from dbus-daemon: > > > > , > > >

[dev] gsoc 2010

2010-01-25 Thread markus schnalke
Are there plans to apply for Google Summer of Code, this year? I ask because I want to apply as student. meillo

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread anonymous
Radare INSTALL says "The WAF build system is supossed to replace the ACR one.". This means that ACR is going to be replaced with WAF? In the section "HOW TO COMPILE" there is "Standard way" with configure && make && make install and "Alternative (going to be deprecated)" based on waf. This means t

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread pancake
I have been using make(1) and acr(1) for most of my projects for a long while and Im pretty happy with them. But I have to agree that make lacks so many things and it is bloated enought to think on moving to mk(1). Some projects like perl use perl (miniperl) to generate makefiles from simplest

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread Armando Di Cianno
David, I worked with the people at Kitware, Inc. for a while (here in beautiful upstate New York), and they wrote and maintain CMake [1]. I believe KDE, IIRC, has used CMake for a while now (which is at least a testament to the complexity it can handle). IMHO, CMake does not have a great syntax,

Re: [dev] saving program options

2010-01-25 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:57 PM, anonymous wrote: > Where programs should store their options? Sometimes it is said that > global variables are bad, but what is better? Some huge structure > storing all options? Of course, they can be divided into many > structures or they can be passed on a stack

Re: [dev] saving program options

2010-01-25 Thread markus schnalke
[2010-01-25 02:10] anonymous > > TAOUP also recommends small programs that do just one thing. If you > > have so many options that you need a "huge structure" to store them, > > that might be a sign that your program is overly complex. Consider > > factoring it into a set of smaller cooperating

Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] Recommended meta-build system

2010-01-25 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi David, 2010/1/25 David Tweed : > I'm wondering if anyone has had particularly good experiences with any > meta-build system (cmake, etc) in the following circumstances: > > I will have a large codebase which consists of some generic files and > some processor specific files. (I'm not worried ab