Re: [Vala] Fwd: Building a build tool

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Plans to support buildj?

http://live.gnome.org/BuilDj

On Mar 14, 2010, at 12:50 AM, Phil Housley <undeconstructed gmail com>  
wrote:

> 2010/3/12 "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>:
> > Hey Phil, would this tool cover only vala projects or any other  
> > project
> > which right now uses autotools could be migrated to this?
> >
> > Recently a new blog post was published on p.g.o announcing yet  
> > another
> > build tool [1], I wonder if you can join efforts with that guy (I  
> > know
> > he's proposing python, but given that it's easy to bind vala with
> > python, and that the former is much faster, I guess he wouldn't  
> > have a
> > problem to re-focus a bit).
>
> Hi Andrés,
>
> Thanks for keeping track of the build tools world a lot better than I
> have - I missed this entirely.  Since that first message I posted, I
> did actually start this project up, and gave it a home at
> https://launchpad.net/realise, but since then I've been mostly
> occupied by work stuff, so have been much more Java focussed than
> Vala, sadly.
>
> It does look like this project is similar to mine, and indeed I was
> planning on making my tool able to build other languages - in my
> latest source the Vala parts are almost entirely abstracted out.  I'll
> leave a comment on the blog and see what comes of it.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Phil.
>
> > Regards,
> >
> >        Andrés
> >
> > [1]
> > http://aruiz.synaptia.net/siliconisland/2010/03/buildj-build-configuration-for-the-mases.html
> >
> > -------- Mensaje original --------
> > Asunto: [Vala] Building a build tool
> > Fecha: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:30:00 +0100
> > De: Phil Housley <undeconstructed gmail com>
> > Para: vala <vala-list gnome org>
> > Grupos de noticias: gmane.comp.programming.vala
> >
> > I've been messing around with a little build tool recently (well,
> > actually not that recently, but I've not had any time for a couple of
> > months,) aiming to build primarily Vala apps and libraries. Generally
> > it's a bit inspired by Maven, so you declare some units to build, and
> > let the tool decide what actually needs to be done.
> >
> > I have a couple of thousand lines of code so far, which is able to
> > build itself, using multiple threads, based on a simple configuration
> > file.  It discovers source files and compiles them, gathers the
> > outputs and queues C compiler tasks to do the next stage, and so on.
> > It's fairly cute, but not massively useful so far.
> >
> > From here, I'm not sure exactly where to go, so I'd be interested in
> > knowing what people here might want in a new build tool.  I'd like to
> > give it a plugin system to allow running different sorts of tasks,  
> > but
> > only within a standard build process.  The aim will always be that as
> > little as possible has to be configured.
> >
> > Really the next step should probably be to enable testing, but I'm
> > stuck there as well.  Which test frameworks are currently active for
> > Vala, and what execution models are they using?  I'd very much like
> > testing Vala code to be as easy as in Java, so I'm aiming for the  
> > tool
> > to be able to discover tests and generate any harnesses required.
> >
> > Also, I need to push the code somewhere, probably on launchpad, so I
> > need a name.  Currently I'm calling it Valapillar, but that's a  
> > pretty
> > obscure joke even to me, and I know why I chose it.
> >
> > Sorry for the rambling, message.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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