Hi, I started a thread with the same subject almost two years ago. The motivation hasn't changed, but the context surely has, so it's probably time to reconsider.
As a reminder, "dumbmake" is the feature that makes "mach build foo/bar" sometimes rebuild in some other directories as well. For example, "mach build gfx" will build gfx, as well as toolkit/library. OTOH, it is pretty limited, and, for instance, "mach build gfx/2d" will only build gfx/2d. There are however now two build targets that can do the right thing for most use cases: - mach build binaries, which will build C/C++ related things appropriately - mach build faster, which will build JS, XUL, CSS, etc. (iow, non C/C++) (although it skips what doesn't end up in dist/bin) At this point, I think "dumbmake" is more harmful than helpful, and the above two targets should be used instead. Removing "dumbmake" would mean that "mach build foo/bar" would still work, but would stop to "magically" do something else than what was requested (or fail to do that thing for all the cases it doesn't know about). Are there still objections to go forward, within the new context? Cheers, Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
