Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs

[Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>]

On 5/21/2023 3:21 AM, BTuin wrote:
> Hello, I would like to propose a new package to integrate in Emacs,
> "Builder".  It provides integration with build systems, to ease the
> configuration and the compilation process, by automatically detecting
> the build system and proposing relevant commands.

This loos interesting. I've actually been working (though not much 
lately) on a similar project by the name of "taco" (Tool Aware 
COmpilation[1]): https://github.com/jimporter/taco

I haven't had time to look over your project in detail, but I see a few 
main differences. The biggest one is that taco divides the build process 
into mostly-independent stages. For example, an Autotools project uses 
three stages: preconfigure (generate "configure" from "configure.ac"), 
configure (generate "Makefile" from "configure"), and build (run the 
Makefile). This way, other build configurators that generate Makefiles 
can just piggyback on the "Make" builder for the actual compilation.

[1] I'm sure I'd need to tweak this name to put it on GNU ELPA though 
(something like "taco-build" for the package identifier might make sense...)