Re: Build systems (was Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.))
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> What do you think of the perl build system? It has the maintainer run
> the patch and unpatch targets manually as necessary. Providing the
> maintainer's happy with this extra step, the only obvious disadvantage
> is that the diff almost doubles in size. I'm considering something like
> this for groff, unless the new dpkg-source will be arriving soon.
I've never heard of it, so I have no comments about it. I don't like the
doubling of the diff that this will cause.
On the state of that new dpkg-source:
It currently can extract and create old format(version 1.0) source archives.
It can extract new format(version 2.0, multi diff/tar, zip/bzip support as
well). Building of the new format is a little more complex.
It may not make it into dpkg 1.10(which, roughly, may be released sometime
between March and May, after woody has been fully frozen for quite a bit(this
is not an official release schedule for dpkg)). I may have it all working by
next June to August. I've given plenty of time here, hopefully I can keep the
schedule.
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