From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 10:48:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210615084845.jm45hyviblduvzl7@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35dd481ec1c8c2e8f1f65b74bcdbe1980da3b5b0.camel@student.tugraz.at>
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:04:59AM +0200, Leo Prikler wrote:
> Soon: There are 15 competing build systems
Very true ;)
> Guix as a build system, with or without GWL, is fine as long as it's
> just fun and games, but it comes with the serious downside of not being
> compatible with any other distro out there. Perhaps that works out for
Maybe. I can still support cargo - just don't want to deal with it...
A Debian target would not be too hard.
> What we need in order to make packages written in Rust less of a PITA
> is more widespread usage of generic build systems like make or meson.
> We won't get there with cargo cult programming. On a somewhat related
> note, I find it amusing, that Rust folk dread the usage of Rust without
> cargo, as if the Rust standard library on its own was somehow worthless
> or something :P
Meson may be good enough (indeed). I have one project that uses meson
effectively and it is not bad. But I had to look up a lot of things -
it is sometimes counterintuitive and hardly simple. Sure beats cmake
and autotools. Still, it could be simpler.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-30 8:38 Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo Pjotr Prins
2021-05-30 19:17 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-05-31 17:47 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-01 5:50 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 6:24 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 7:23 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-01 8:12 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 8:59 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 9:11 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 10:52 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 11:03 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 11:28 ` Adriano Peluso
2021-06-01 15:22 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-01 7:56 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-06-01 23:35 ` Joshua Branson
2021-06-08 13:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-14 14:29 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-06-14 22:04 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-15 8:48 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2021-06-15 10:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-06-20 15:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
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