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

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

Luca Barbato wrote:

> Steve Long wrote:
>> Something that's been discussed on IRC is the idea of a .pbuild file,
>> written in Python. I can also think of .cbuild (C) .Cbuild (C++) .sbuild
>> (Scheme) .hbuild (Haskell) and .jbuild (guess;) as being of immediate
>> use, (although I accept I might be the only one interested in the first
>> ;)
> 
> I do not see any improvement per se.
> 
Well I agree C and C++ aren't very useful, since they are more than
adequately covered by make et al. With the others, there are setup tools
like distutils in the language already.

>> How do others feel about such an addition?
> 
> I think it's pointless.
> 
Fair enough. It's intended to make it easier to write install scripts.


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