Hello to all.
This is my first post, and I would like to tell some of my works in an
alfs
like building software. I would prefer to contribute to the official alfs
development, but i had not much time and what i have done was done for code
training in mind (at least at the begining).
Mainly for c++ training, i started to write some pieces of a modular
system
were plugins (via dlopen) can do small tasks, such as reading a xml build
profile and returning dependencies, configure commands, build commands,
descriptions and others. There is also a callback mechanism, so a plugin can
call another plugin and work with the results.
With a system like this, some can write a plugin to configure the build
(./configure ...), one to get sources, one to configure the system (/etc
things), another to build... And some high level plugins to solve
dependencies, download, build install and set up the system to the new
software, remove or upgrade.
I think this can be a good idea. If I can improve the design and invest
some
time and thinking in the core of the modular system, maybe a great tool can
be done.
Also, a tool to automate the creation of profiles (jhalfs), with little
user
intervention could help any *alfs project, I am looking a little in this
direction by now.
I would like to know what do you think and to get some suggestions or
different ideas.
Thanks
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