Re: [Vala] A brand new build system

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

> ________________________________
> From: Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com>
> To: Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com> 
> Cc: "vala-list gnome org" <vala-list gnome org> 
> Sent: Friday, 16 May 2014, 22:43
> Subject: Re: [Vala] A brand new build system
>
>
> (I'm the author of Bake).
>
> Bake has detailed documentation with it (as shown in that link) 
>
> The documentation is also readable in raw Mallard format (much the same as HTML):
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bake-team/bake/trunk/files/head:/help/
It give me the impression Bake is intended to be comprehensive :-) 
and the Vala page ( http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bake-team/bake/trunk/view/head:/help/vala.page ) might be 
worth a look.

So it's held in Bazaar, any thoughts on switching to Git? Eric S. Raymond argues Bazaar is dying ( 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00005.html ). You might get more people giving it a 
quick spin if they can do a git clone. I was about to give it a go, but only got as far as reading this ( 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/10389/how-can-i-import-bzr-branches-into-git ).



> but lacks a website [1]. Help welcome :)
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bake/+bug/1215366

What kind of website? I presume the project infrastructure, i.e. repository, mailing list, bug reporting will 
be handled off site?

How would you describe the current status of the project and its goals in a hundred words? :-)

Looks a very interesting project. NEWS file also gives a flavour ( 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bake-team/bake/trunk/view/head:/NEWS )

All the best,

Al