From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcBww-0000dd-Oy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA976E0896; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5AEE0896 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF48663F2 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.267 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.267 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.265, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BkEwLmD+vMwz for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C027D65F9C for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JcBwh-0005yV-28 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:03 +0000 Received: from 82.152.202.29 ([82.152.202.29]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:03 +0000 Received: from slong by 82.152.202.29 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:00:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: New build types Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:02:34 +0000 Message-ID: References: <47E032E5.2020301@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.152.202.29 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0ad0e171-6376-4867-b3ae-ea2ea5fa4139 X-Archives-Hash: 1568d4baf172795e94b2041370de4142 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. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list