Re: Buildj + Quickly Vala template == Love :)

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

Hello Shane,
glad to know your interest in buildj, Quickly is exactly the kind of
thing I had in mind when I came up with this.

I have just fixed some remaining bugs in the vala support in waf/trunk
so things should be fine on this camp.

What we need help at right now:

Moving from JSON to YAML, abderrahim is working on a small yaml parser
that we can embed since the ones available are too big and we only
need a subset of yaml.

Abderrahim, any news on this side?



2010/9/23 Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan ubuntu com>:
> Hey all,
>
> I hate build systems at the moment so I talked with Alberto over the
> week and I was saying I want to use buildj for my Quickly Vala template.
> So im going to share my ideal building situation for users.
>
> Oh and I should say what Quickly is first. Quickly is simply a system to
> make development more automated. You have a template and a set of
> commands to use. So quickly create <project name> creates the project,
> quickly package, packages the project, quickly share pushes it to a ppa
> on launchpad and so on. The idea is to keep config from the user to a
> minimum so the user just has to focus on development.
>
> The main thing is that we have a fully automated process in place for
> the user.
>
> So for that we need depends detection a la python-distutils-extra (ill
> try to get this working on my end for ubuntu's 11.04 release)
>
> 1 config file that takes in the needed info for the packaging and
> building.
>  * author (+email too for packaging), app name, description, URL
>  * version numbers in quickly are bumped automatically so that isnt
> needed in the 1 file.
>  * where the files are should be static bin files in /bin lib files
> in /project_name and data like .ui files and images in /data (in
> subfolders /ui and /media)
>
> So the idea is to keep it to a very simple config and make everything as
> automated as possible. So the user says quickly package and buildj kicks
> in and works out all of the hard building related stuff like where all
> the pieces are and ill work out the debian directory stuff and the files
> needed to create a package.
>
> So to make it easy for buildj to do its job ill be making a standard
> layout of a quickly project for the users to stick to. So buildj will
> just have to scan those directories and check for the files.
>
> gettext support should be automated too but id need someone who is an
> expert to look at it.
>
> Ok so thats my ideas if it makes sense and we can do it awesome. Its all
> up for discussion anyway and hopefully you guys can add to it.
>
> --fagan
>
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-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz