Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:40 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: The core of a distribution is the packaging system, and the core of the packaging system is the building system, which has no reason

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/20/08, Felipe Contreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) Error are difficult to handle since bash doesn't have exceptions I disagree here: most errors are fatal anyway any non fatal errors can be printed and saved via

[gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-20 Thread Felipe Contreras
agnostic. Why not create a new build system with a state of the art programming language, and an advanced DSL that actually other distributions could use? I would like to hear your opinions on this matter. -- Felipe Contreras -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list