Bug#683333: ITP: ninja-build -- small build system closest in spirit to Make

[Gary Kramlich <grim@reaperworld.com>]

Hi Holger,

I grabbed the intro section from the manual, and reworded the second paragraph since it's no longer first person.  Even then, I'm not sure the second paragraph is necessary, but I'm including it now to try to give a better description.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:

Hi Gary,

On Montag, 30. Juli 2012, Gary Kramlich wrote:
> Package name: ninja-build
> Version: 120508+git638b033
> Upstream Author: Google
> URL: http://martine.github.com/ninja/
> License: Apache v2
> Description: small build system closest in spirit to Make
>  Ninja is a small build system closest in spirit to Make.
>  .
>  See the manual -- http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html or
>  manual.asciidoc included in the distribution -- for more background,
>  including motivation and build instructions.

Please put the useful info from there into the package description and remove
this boilerplate.

 

 Ninja is yet another build system. It takes as input the interdependencies of

 files (typically source code and output executables) and orchestrates

 building them, quickly.

 .

 Ninja joins a sea of other build systems. Its distinguishing goal is to be

 fast. It is born from the Chromium browser project, which has over 30,000

 source files and whose other build systems can take ten seconds to start

 building after changing one file. Ninja is under a second.

If this looks good, I'll upload the new version to mentors.

cheers,
        Holger

Thanks,

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Gary Kramlich <grim@reaperworld.com>