That would be a good start. But are you advocating that it should be third party tools thatcshould be given guidelines on how to comply? What would be their incentive to do so? Or should this be used as a basis for creating a prototype deploying duch information... which would inevitably ask again:
Should Rust have its own build tool, given your proposal of standardized representational information ? Dealing with such metadata forces you to design a new system. Lee Braiden <[email protected]> wrote: >On 14/01/14 17:25, Patrick Walton wrote: >> On 1/14/14 1:29 AM, comex wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:30 AM, George Makrydakis >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Again, note that this rather long thread is about discussing in the > >>>> end what >>>> the official stance should be. There is no valid reason other than >>>> lack of >>>> manpower and / or language immaturity for having to depend on ruby, > >>>> python, >>>> autotools, cmake or whatever else in order to build rust software. >>> >>> There is no reason every language should have its own build system >>> written from scratch (or package manager, for that matter); the >goals >>> of each language community are really mostly identical<snip> >>> >>> However, I'd say there is a stunning lack of existing build systems >>> that actually combine a clean design, flexibility, portability, and >>> performance<snip> >> This e-mail sums up my feelings to a T, and it's why I'm conflicted >> about the whole matter. > >The more people talk about different build systems and how we can't >choose one yet, the more I agree. > >So, rethinking, it seems to me that important part seems, is to be >COMPATIBLE with everyone's project hosting, build system, and/or >package >manager of choice. That would include command line build tools, pretty > >website download catalogs, yum, synaptic, cabal, etc. > > >So, much more important than choosing TOOLS, I think Rust needs to >standardise INFORMATION that any tool can use. Perhaps something like >this? > >[ > "project": { > "name": "someproject", > > "brief-description": "some description", > > "limited-description": [ > "Para-one.", > "Para-two.", > "Para-three." >], > > "web": "http://buggysoft.com";, > > "screenshots": { > "screenshot one": { > "uri": "http://www.buggypics.com/massivebug.png";, > "alt-text": "Features massive bugs", > }, > }, > > "bug-tickets": "http://overloaded-cloud-system.buggysoft.com";, > > "authors": { > "author1": { > "email": "[email protected]", > "web": "http://someplace.com";, > }, > }, > > "copyright": { > "license-file": "docs/LICENSE.TXT", > "license-flags": "SHAREALIKE | ATTRIBUTION | >ADVERTISING_CLAUSE", > }, > > "build-info": { > "build-type": "library", > "target": "libx.so" > "source-files": [ "src/*.rs", "somedir/a_file.rs" ], > }, > > "developer-support-info": { > "rust-ide-doc-file": "docs/libx.rustapi", > "rust-ide-completion-file": "docs/libx.rusttags", > }, > > "dependencies": { > "rust-projects": { > "someotherproject": { # from that projects >"project" -> "name" entry > > # following fields are optional; any >specified filter the list > # the list of suitable candidates. > > "min-version": "0.1", > "max-version": "0.1", > > "gitrepo": >"http://somehub.com/someuser/someotherproject/";, > "min-git-tag": "04a453543", > "max-git-tag": "045ead634", > > "tarball-uri": >"http://someotherproject.com/somepath-${version}.tgz";, > > "distro-version-ok": "true" > } > }, > > "external-libs": { > "libssl": { > "min-version": "0.1", > "max-version": "0.1", > > "gitrepo": >"http://somehub.com/someuser/someotherproject/";, > "min-git-tag": "04a453543", > "max-git-tag": "045ead634", > > "tarball-uri": >"http://someotherproject.com/somepath-${version}.tgz"; > > "distro-version-ok": "true", > } > }, > } > } >] > >-- >Lee > >_______________________________________________ >Rust-dev mailing list >[email protected] >https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
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