Bug#1004908: ITP: faber -- software build system
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: moeller@debian.org
Subject: ITP: faber -- software build system
Package: wnpp
Owner: <moeller@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : faber
Version : 0.6.0.dev1
Upstream Author : Stefan Seefeld
* URL : http://stefan.seefeld.name/faber/
* License : Boost-1.0
Programming Lang: Python
Description : software build system
Software developers prepare a bunch of files with their source code
that may be taken as they are or somehow processed to constitute
the final software package. This can be tricky when the processing
itself is tricky, and because the processing of one file may depend
on the processing of other files, e.g. to link against a library.
And when linking against external libraries, this need to be in the
right version. And then there are tests performed to check that
all is fine on that particular platoform that the build is performed on.
And finally, the developer wants an easy way to be pointed to where
the problem occurred.
.
Traditionally, the building of software is done with Make, but many
new tools have evolved ever since, often adapted to a new programming
language. This package provides the executable of the faber software
build system that was adopted by the Python Boost interface but is not
specific for Python.
Remark: This package is maintained by Steffen Moeller at
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/faber
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