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| Re: State of the beelang? [message #997093 is a reply to message #996603] |
Thu, 03 January 2013 15:42   |
 Roland Tepp
Messages: 36
Registered: July 2009 |
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2.01.2013 15:55, Henrik Lindberg kirjutas:
>> Is there some development in the direction of using the b3 language for
>> defining build processes or has the development gone into standsstill?
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> The development of the b3 language is at a standstill.
A pity, I rather liked the b3 language.
> As a language it is quite complete (it has been used in one application;
> non public, not released though), but it lacks concrete implementations
> of things that perform useful building.
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> The build related functionality to date in b3 does not include any
> overall build process support (e.g. no functionality to describe things
> like; run build on checkin, run tests, publish, etc.). This area was
> something we wanted to work on, but never got around to.
You mean the language backend has no support for these things or the
language itself is lacking in these concepts?
> The best alternative IMO for Eclipse related builds is currently Eclipse
> Buckminster.
Yes, I understand that, but I was drawn to the elegance of b3 syntax.
What would it take to wite a functional backend for the language using,
say, Antlib or something similar?
Roland
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| Re: State of the beelang? [message #997117 is a reply to message #997093] |
Thu, 03 January 2013 19:04 |
Henrik Lindberg
Messages: 2509
Registered: July 2009 |
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On 2013-03-01 16:42, Roland Tepp wrote:
> 2.01.2013 15:55, Henrik Lindberg kirjutas:
>>> Is there some development in the direction of using the b3 language for
>>> defining build processes or has the development gone into standsstill?
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>> The development of the b3 language is at a standstill.
> A pity, I rather liked the b3 language.
>
I do too :)
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>> As a language it is quite complete (it has been used in one application;
>> non public, not released though), but it lacks concrete implementations
>> of things that perform useful building.
>>
>> The build related functionality to date in b3 does not include any
>> overall build process support (e.g. no functionality to describe things
>> like; run build on checkin, run tests, publish, etc.). This area was
>> something we wanted to work on, but never got around to.
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> You mean the language backend has no support for these things or the
> language itself is lacking in these concepts?
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There are no backends for discovery of relationships from eclipse
metadata, and there are no backends to build things like plugins etc.
The dependency resolution that is implemented is also quite simplistic.
The builder framework itself is implemented, the concepts are there etc.
I used it with specialized builders (in fact building p2 repositories
from b3 described elements, and then aggregating them).
Worked like a charm.
Basically, b3 gives access to anything in Java.
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>> The best alternative IMO for Eclipse related builds is currently Eclipse
>> Buckminster.
> Yes, I understand that, but I was drawn to the elegance of b3 syntax.
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> What would it take to wite a functional backend for the language using,
> say, Antlib or something similar?
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Have not looked at Antlib, so I don't really know how to use it from
Java. Since b3 is easy to integrate with Java it should be relatively
easy if there is a decent java API.
> Roland
>
Hope that helps.
Regards
- henrik
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