Re: Converters available, e.g. SCons -> aap?

Ian Nelson wrote:

> I've attached my version.aap script.   It's C/C++ specific,  and it
> works on Linux and Mac OS X,  I suspect it would work on Windows with
> cygwin but I don't have a machine to try it on.     I guess there are a
> couple of ways to make it generic,   it can support more programming
> technologies like Java, D, Ada, etc.. but being abstracted out that
> way.  That's really easy though, that's just writing variables to a fil=
e
> in a special way.
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> Really, a-a-p does all the hard work already.   In fact I think the onl=
y
> thing that was missing (and I didn't look super hard at the time so it
> might be there) was the compiler versioning.     I sample script librar=
y
> might be best right now.

Thanks for sharing your recipe.  I think it functions as an example.
It's too specific to be used by others as-is, but it's easy to modify
and tune to ones needs.

We currently don't have a database for recipe examples.  For now the
maillist archive can function as such.  However, the subject line should
indicate a recipe is included, otherwise it would be hard to find.
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> > I'm still struggling with one thing: For Vim I maintain a Makefile,
> > because that's what most people use.  That means I need to maintain
> > two files.  If installing Aap would not be required, then most
> > people would not need the Makefile.  However, systems without Python
> > would not be supported then, that is still quite a restriction.
> >  =20
> > Ideally the Aap recipe would be converted into a C program.  You can
> > then include that with the program and you would only need a C
> > compiler, which you need anyway.  Now I only need something to
> > convert Python into C code...
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> Python is starting to show up in more places,  probably nowhere near as
> many as vim though.    It's on phones and such now.    That's a tough
> problem though.   What are the more popular platform not with python?

I don't think the question is about popular platforms, the question is:
Is there any platform where one should be able to compile Vim and Python
is not available?  You would still need a Makefile then.

MS-Windows is an example.  Many people do have a C compiler but no
Python installed.  Or it is there but it is not in $PATH.  You could
install python there, of course, thus it's not really a problem.

Compare this with autoconf: The reason it produces a shell script is
that it will run anywhere.  Well, on any kind of Unix at least.

> Boost supplies a build tool with their code, jam.   You could almost
> do that.  Or just announce that Make is being phased out and see if
> there are any takers to maintain it.=20

I could include Aap with Vim, it is 800 Kbyte (uncompressed).  Adds
about 10% to the Vim source code.

> It's still my favorite tool that has come out in a long while,  thanks
> for building it.  I can't say that enough.

I'm glad you like it!

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