Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New category: dev-build

[Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@gmail.com>]

There are at least a few generally language-specific build
tools/systems that can, if you're into masochism, be used to build
other languages (Gradle, Maven, etc.), and tools like Ant, which while
primarily used in Java projects is really just a Makefile with
different syntax and core functions in XML. Does making a new category
for explicitly general-purpose tools like Make and friends ambiguate
where the language-specific tools belong? Should other
non-Make-related packages be moved from their current dev-[language]
locations?

Does dev-util/gyp really belong there, or since it is node-specific,
should there be a dev-js category?

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 8:58 PM orbea <orbea@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:20:25 +0100
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2024-01-07 at 09:50 -0500, Yuan Liao (Leo3418) wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 03:46:23PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Another idea for a new category: dev-build.  Proposed description:
> > > >
> > > >   Build systems and related tools.
> > >
> > > Have you considered the name 'dev-buildsys'?  More straightforward
> > > in my opinion, with the cost of a longer length.
> >
> > I have but I don't like the idea of half-shortcuts.  Also, we are
> > really including some "building" tools like make that aren't really
> > "systems".
> >
>
> I suggest that ninja, samurai, bmake, pmake and make are all in the
> same category. Currently the first two are in dev-util while the rest
> are in sys-devel while they are all build tools that fill a similar
> need.
>