Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: moel...@debian.org Subject: ITP: faber -- software build system Package: wnpp Owner: <moel...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : faber Version : 0.6.0.dev1 Upstream Author : Stefan Seefeld * URL : http://stefan.seefeld.name/faber/ * License : Boost-1.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : software build system Software developers prepare a bunch of files with their source code that may be taken as they are or somehow processed to constitute the final software package. This can be tricky when the processing itself is tricky, and because the processing of one file may depend on the processing of other files, e.g. to link against a library. And when linking against external libraries, this need to be in the right version. And then there are tests performed to check that all is fine on that particular platoform that the build is performed on. And finally, the developer wants an easy way to be pointed to where the problem occurred. . Traditionally, the building of software is done with Make, but many new tools have evolved ever since, often adapted to a new programming language. This package provides the executable of the faber software build system that was adopted by the Python Boost interface but is not specific for Python. Remark: This package is maintained by Steffen Moeller at https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/faber