[gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-20 Thread Felipe Contreras
ging" system, and the core of the packaging system is the building system, which has no reason not to be distribution agnostic, and actually, packaging system agnostic. Why not create a new build system with a state of the art programming language, and an advanced DSL that actually other distributions could use? I would like to hear your opinions on this matter. -- Felipe Contreras -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:40 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > The core of a distribution is the "packaging" system, and the core of > > the packaging system is the building sy

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/20/08, Felipe Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > b) Error are difficult to handle since bash doesn't have exceptions > > I disagree here: most errors are fatal anyway any non fa