Shamar
I think my point is that if you can percieve the difference between compiling with a makefile that check timestamps and all, and compiling with a script that don't give a shit and build everything, your project is too complex and should be split into smaller pieces.
Needing makefiles on today hardware is a huge smell.
Shamar
In fact, most of times I build a single program or library in jehanne and it takes few seconds.
The kernel is the slowest component (except of gcc/binutils, obviously), but mostly because to create the initrd, it starts a previously compiled kernel in qemu and copy the required binaries as served by a 9P2000 local fs.
Iow, not something you would optimize with make.
Obviously 10 or even 20 files are not too many but I'm quite surprised it take your machine minutes to compile them.
Shamar
As for a simpler make, maybe: but it's not that complex. It's just that I'm not sure it's needed anymore.
Shamar
Yes, I am.
Not much on #Jehanne, but on deciding what computing should be (and thus what Jehanne aims to become).
Yeah, complex software exists.
But it should not.
So now make is useful because of #WirthsLaw... but it should not. 😉
Wim 🈂️
What would be the definition of "complex software", what would the metrics be? Number of source files, total lines of code, dependencies; or is it the nature of the code: cyclomatic complexity, data structure complexity, patterns of computation?
Wim 🈂️
@ekaitz_zarraga
That's a clear if somewhat subjective definition. Does it relate in any way to the use of a build tool?
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