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 <leebr...@gmail.com> <mailto:leebr...@gmail.com> 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
<irrequie...@gmail.com>
<mailto:irrequie...@gmail.com> 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":"auth...@someplace.com"
<mailto:auth...@someplace.com>,
"web": "http://someplace.com";,
},
},
"copyright": {
"license-file": "docs/LICENSE.TXT",
"license-flags": "SHAREALIKE | ATTRIBUTION |
ADVERTISING_CLAUSE",
},
"build-info": {
"build-type": "library",
"target": "libx.so <http://libx.so>"
"source-files": [ "src/*.rs", "somedir/a_file.rs
<http://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",
}
},
}
}
]
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