Alternatives to Make

[Jeremy Reichman]

Rather than continue to overload the packagemaker thread with talk about alternatives, I thought I’d start a new topic. I had looked at some other options -- mostly Python-based, but some Java-based (Ant/Maven/Gradle) -- a while back but then my ambition faltered.

Has anyone else looked at existing frameworks other than Make or rake? Anything that seems like a good fit for the task of automated building of packages on OS X today? Anything that looks like it could widen the audience for this sort of tool? Any thoughts about being able to reuse/share/import existing recipes -- maybe not existing Luggage makefiles, but maybe the Composer recipes hosted by JAMF?

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Jeremy

[Roy Nielsen]

Has anyone looked at cpack - looks like they were set up to use package maker - it looks like they may need an update to use pkgbuild and friends it looks like.

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Packaging_With_CPack

Regards,

-Roy

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Jeremy

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[Roy Nielsen]

Here's another build system, don't think it creates mac packages right now, but building package making into meson might be interesting...

https://jpakkane.github.io/meson/

Regards,

-Roy

[Jeremy Reichman]

The Python 3 requirement might be an issue. (As Java could be for any of the Java-based tools.) Not that I'm against Python 3 -- it seems silly to not have it in OS X yet -- but it's not in OS X.

When I was looking, I was really hoping to start with something that built on top of OS X, without having to add too many layers or extra packages to get started.

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Jeremy Reichman

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