From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 18:59:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM=F=bAgqh58mHHoPQYKpU8Lvs=nEnS10dQ5vZ8xw7jkDYGNBQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <beae68ea91318e085b3e@heytings.org>
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On Thu, May 25, 2023, 2:55 AM Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> wrote:
>
> >> Cargo is a program that runs locally, not a server. It works like
> >> make, except that it may communicate with the crates.io repository, to
> >> fetch a copy of the source code (and the license) of the libraries you
> >> need to build a given Rust program, and that are not yet available
> >> locally.
> >
> > ... akin to npm (the Node package manager of the Javascript world), it
> > downloads half of the Internet while building and makes your life
> > miserable if you want to avoid that.
> >
> > The new models just make it slightly more inconvenient to stay free.
> >
>
> You are spreading FUD. When you want to compile, say, Emacs, you need to
> either download the binaries of the libraries that are not yet available
> locally and their headers, or download the source of these libraries and
> build them. Doing that does not "donwload half of the Internet". After
> this you need to run the "configure" script which checks which libraries
> (and sometimes which versions of these libraries) are available.
>
> Cargo does all that for you.
>
> >
> > Can we call this pattern neo-proprietary?
> >
>
> No, we cannot. There is no relation whatsoever between software
> proprietariness and this elegant solution to the problem of library
> dependencies.
>
"Elegant" is a strong characterization of the practice of "vendoring"
source dependencies, which you describe here. It's useful if you are
maintaining a replicable build process common in corporate software
environments and projects meant to distribute prebuilt binaries to the
mass-market. Vendoring is distinctly unfriendly to users that want to
build or tinker with it locally using locally available (and user-vetted)
libraries, i.e. classic free software users.
Can "crates.io" be replaced by a different package repository, or
configured to work with whatever is available locally?
Lynn
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2023-05-21 10:21 [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs BTuin
2023-05-21 12:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-21 14:56 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-21 17:24 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-21 19:33 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-21 19:58 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-21 21:36 ` John Yates
2023-05-22 16:35 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-23 0:44 ` Po Lu
2023-05-23 21:10 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-23 21:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-05-24 6:09 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2023-05-24 21:35 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-24 23:32 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-25 0:11 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 4:00 ` tomas
2023-05-25 6:53 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25 9:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25 11:53 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25 14:36 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25 16:40 ` tomas
2023-05-25 19:23 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-26 0:57 ` Po Lu
2023-05-27 0:24 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-26 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-26 21:16 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27 0:25 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-28 10:20 ` Madhu
2023-05-28 12:38 ` Po Lu
2023-05-29 22:03 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-29 22:42 ` Po Lu
2023-05-30 7:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 12:54 ` Po Lu
2023-05-30 15:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 16:50 ` chad
2023-05-31 1:14 ` Po Lu
2023-06-05 1:09 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05 5:29 ` Po Lu
2023-06-05 8:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05 9:06 ` Po Lu
2023-06-17 3:34 ` Yilkal Argaw
2023-05-27 14:55 ` Brian Cully via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-26 0:54 ` Po Lu
2023-05-26 21:16 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27 0:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-27 2:37 ` Ruijie Yu via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-28 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29 22:05 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 13:01 ` Po Lu
2023-05-30 15:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-31 1:16 ` Po Lu
2023-06-02 21:38 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-05 1:10 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05 5:19 ` Po Lu
2023-06-05 8:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05 9:00 ` Po Lu
2023-05-31 22:28 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-30 21:52 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-28 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-25 13:16 ` chad
2023-05-25 19:38 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-26 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27 9:45 ` Yuri Khan
2023-05-28 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29 8:03 ` Yuri Khan
2023-05-30 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-25 7:55 ` tomas
2023-05-25 8:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 10:38 ` Po Lu
2023-05-25 11:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 12:02 ` Po Lu
2023-05-25 12:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-26 0:52 ` Po Lu
2023-05-26 21:16 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27 0:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-28 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29 22:05 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 13:03 ` Po Lu
2023-05-31 22:29 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-26 22:59 ` Lynn Winebarger [this message]
2023-05-28 21:22 ` Björn Bidar
2023-05-29 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-30 4:28 ` tomas
2023-05-25 10:42 ` Po Lu
2023-05-25 19:36 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-22 22:00 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-23 8:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-23 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-23 12:13 ` Po Lu
2023-05-23 18:46 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-24 6:32 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-24 20:09 ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-24 3:34 ` David Masterson
2023-05-24 10:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-28 21:17 ` Björn Bidar
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