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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] off-the-cuff pie-in-the-sky wish
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zander |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] off-the-cuff pie-in-the-sky wish |
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Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:25:53 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:53:45PM -0500, Robert Anderson wrote:
> This seems like a really nice area for automation. A
> configuration-based dependency tree that serves as a kind of
> meta-make that goes back and rebuilds (and/or tests) everything
> when a dependency (a category) goes "out of date" (i.e., a new
> patch is added).
This idea is not new (ideas rarely are :)
http://maven.apache.org/
The idea there is to write a meta-file and let the rest be decided
based on a thick book of best-practice rules put together with the
OSS community.
Hope you can fetch some ideas from that.
--
Thomas Zander