From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.140.192.65 with SMTP id n62mr15956002qha.12.1435527464290; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:37:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.37.48 with SMTP id q45mr1657qgq.34.1435527464278; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!z60no867458qgd.0!news-out.google.com!4ni18254qgh.1!nntp.google.com!z60no867454qgd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:37:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.91.37.131; posting-account=hya6vwoAAADTA0O27Aq3u6Su3lQKpSMz NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.91.37.131 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9965ebbe-e8af-4c73-86c7-9ab974b525f5@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: gprbuild fun From: vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:37:44 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:193826 Date: 2015-06-28T14:37:44-07:00 List-Id: Le dimanche 28 juin 2015 21:22:33 UTC+2, David Botton a =E9crit=A0: > No reason not to make a community effort for a set of build tools that is= not as "delicate" as the gprtools and requires code outside the FSF tree t= o be compiled and used. >=20 > David Botton Sure. What could be the starting point ?=A0Is gnatmake full FSF=A0?=A0Could= it be possible to add a sort of Ant or Maven written in Ada to replace GPR= Build ?=20 On idea : could it be possible to simply write the "makefile" in Ada then c= ompile it first as an executable and use it to launch the rest of the compi= lation process ? To do that one only needs to develop a "building library" = in Ada. No messy XML=A0file required anymore !