On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2014 05:42, "Daniel Holth" <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I became convinced that build was an inherently arbitrary-code > > process, and not something to be universally handled by a declarative > > system, > > It wasn't an accident that last years PyCon panel was subtitled "setup.py > *install* must die" :) > > As others have suggested, declarative build will never be more than an 80% > solution, and then beyond that, it should be a question of plumbing to > invoke the project's own build system (and ideally that plumbing will be > per build system, not per project). > Agreed -- I have been poking at this a bit, and trying to make gattai work for me: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gattai/ (It's a by and for python build system that essentially invokes the native build systems : make, setup.py, nmake, etc... But that's not really the point). the point is that I hit a wall pretty quickly with its declarative approach (JSON files). I find I can't do what I need to do with straight declaration (and I'm hacking gattai to support that) However, for the most part, all I need to be able to do is run arbitrary code to set up the declarations. The stuff that's been talked about: finding the right libraries to link to, that sort of thing. I actually think that aspect of the setup.py approach works pretty well, even though it does sometimes get kind of messy. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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