Let’s say I have a hypothetical program that I’ve written where I want a certain feature to be a compile-time option. From the compiler’s point of view, I can just do -D some_optional_feature, no problem. But, what if this optional feature required a separate Shard as a dependency? Ideally this s…

Yeah, Autotools won’t initiate a dependency download on its own, though you could do add it in if you really want. Meson has Wrap, which I haven’t used myself, but it seems to do like I’m thinking. You have a good point, however, and I agree that Shards and Autotools aren’t exactly at the same lev…

There are no alternative build systems that can work with Shards (that I’m aware of at least), but you can add {% skip_file unless flag?(:foo) %} to the optional file(s) which would work just fine.

Maybe this is going a bit on a tangent… But it might be relevant to finding and using the right tools for the right jobs. In my understanding of ./configure scripts they are responsible for setting the configuration how you want to build the software. But I have never seen a ./configure to directly…

[image] MistressRemilia: But before I go off and create some hacky custom configure.rb script to force it to work the way I want, I wanted to check with others. For non-libraries, I’d go with a Makefile + yq to conditionally add dependencies: https://gist.github.com/GeopJr/8c00a73e0c…

Thanks to know there is a tools name yq, and those hack use with make!

For packages that should offer some customizable aspects I would prefer to go with a plugin approach. This can be used by the end application to choose the final package tree. Eg: a web framework with session management that can be stored in db, redis, or cookes. I would expect webframework-session…

The first versions of gi-crystal, a GObject binding generator, I tried to generate the bindings at post install time but soon I changed that since it was horrible to debug and IMO doing too much things on the back of the developer. So I changed to an approach of let the user execute a command by him…

"./configure" equivalent for Shards

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