On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:45 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:57 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > Can you propose what the necessary change would be to: > > > > https://people.gnome.org/~walters/build-api/build-api.md > > Well that document is Autotools-specific. It would need to be written > from scratch for CMake following CMake conventions, and separately > again for Meson.
That is exactly the opposite of the intention of Colin's build-api specification. The build-api is specifically written so that it *doesn't* require every project to be built with Autotools. If it assumed Autotools, it would be a much shorter document, starting with "you must use Autotools" :-) It *is* designed such that implementing it in Autotools modules is trivial, because the free software world (with a particular focus on the parts of it in and below GNOME) already contains a lot of Autotools. Would you have preferred it to take the form ./build-api.sh prepare with_libdir=/usr/lib64 ./build-api.sh build ./build-api.sh install with_root=/foo (ensuring that in practice, *every* project needs modifications if it is to implement the build-api) out of some sense of artificial neutrality? The intention of the build-api, as I understand it, is to avoid this: https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/jhbuild/modtypes and this: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/tree/Debian/Debh elper/Buildsystem or if you think package-based distributions are a thing of the past[1], this, part of the base on which gnome-continuous and the reference Flatpak runtimes are built: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/scripts/lib/recipe tool/create_buildsys.py or further away from GNOME, this: https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdesrc-build.git&a=tree&h=a6fa7cd83f0fbae52 4a63952c3c3bf607b7566d0&hb=f187eaf9ff7b3994de649377abf18f131fee03ef&f=m odules%2Fksb%2FBuildSystem and more generally, everyone who builds an operating system having to invent an abstraction layer across popular and semi-popular build systems to map them into their favourite meta-build system. (I'm using "operating system" rather loosely here: Flatpak doesn't build operating systems, as such, but flatpak-builder uses the build- api to build runtimes and apps.) S [1] I don't -- Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.com/> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
