From: Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:29:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203596946.3076.72.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530802201240v19dde77vff199cb11ece0bbd@mail.gmail.com>
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 not
> to be distribution agnostic, and actually, packaging system 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.
Take a look at Nix. It's a distribution-agnostic package manager that
uses a purely functional DSL for package specifications.
http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-20 20:40 [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild Felipe Contreras
2008-02-21 12:29 ` Duncan Coutts [this message]
2008-02-24 11:02 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-02-24 19:43 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-02-25 10:59 ` Jakub Moc
2008-02-25 11:24 ` Sebastian Volke
2008-02-24 19:49 ` Duncan Coutts
2008-02-23 20:45 ` Alec Warner
2008-02-23 20:46 ` Alec Warner
2008-02-24 11:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-02-24 18:50 ` Luis Francisco Araujo
2008-02-24 23:32 ` Alec Warner
2008-02-25 6:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
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