On 12/11/2007, Ali Sabil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > However, the most important point for this discussion is that this > > approach makes it hard to provide a high-level UI a'la Eclipse or Visual > > Studio which is what many many people are used to. One way to do this is > > to use a declarative programming language (e.g. XML) to express the > > build process. > > > I agree with you concerning this, and if you took time to check, WAF > already have an xml representation using wscript_xml files iirc. > > The problem with declarative approaches is that you cannot easily > integrate configure checks, WAF solves this by allowing python > snippets to be included for the configure check.
Eh, why not? <check package="glib-2.0" minimalVersion="2.12"/> Other more advanced constructs (such as checking for a specific Python package or other) can be implemented with a plugin system like Ant have, or other means. I think we should really investigate WAF, and how to make use of the > XML representation to integrate with let's say Eclipse ? Yes, the Waf XML representation should definitely be examined. Cheers, Mikkel
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