[Scons-users] ANNOUNCE: Fubsy 0.0.1: the universal build tool

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 20:37 -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
[…]

>   * like SCons, Fubsy strongly encourages you to describe your

>     dependencies fully and accurately; in return for that effort,

>     Fubsy will guarantee a correct and optimal build


"Dependency" is a term of dubious semantics, sadly.  In the JVM-based
community it generally means the jars you have to have to be able to
build your source code. In the C/C++/Fortran/D arenas it can often mean
all the relationships between source, intermediate compilation products
and final build products.

[…]

>   * Fubsy is designed to have a small, language/tool/policy-neutral

>     core, with all interesting decisions happening in plugins.

>     Someday, it will be possible to write plugins in multiple

>     languages (Python, Ruby, Lua, JavaScript, ... whatever someone

>     implements support for).


All of those are dynamic languages, will you support plugins in
languages such as D and Go?


>   * Fubsy will provide first-class support for both C/C++ and Java in

>     standard plugins, making it one of the very few build tools to

>     support the world's most widely-used programming languages.


Java necessarily now interworks with Groovy, Scala, Ceylon, Kotlin,
Jython, JRuby, Clojure, Fantom. A Java-only build framework will get no
traction in the JVM-verse.

I think you will need to relate Fubsy to Waf, CMake, Autotools, Gradle,
Maven, Gant, Ant, SBT, Leiningen, as well as Make and SCons.

Every language leads to the creation of a build framework for that
language, the question is whether a "universal build tool" is either
possible, or likely to gain traction due to sociological factors.

-- 
Russel.
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