Re: [Vala] Fwd: Building a build tool

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

pancake, I was talking about buildj in my original message...

        Andrés


El 15/03/10 08:32, pancake escribió:
> 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?
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Phil Housley
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