Experimental model based build system with packaging
- High level modeling of SW's structure, following convention-over-code, where everyhing else can be automatically deduced from. Simple YAML file. Describing what you wanna get, instead of how to do it.
- Automatic checks/configuration, similar to autoconf et al, but much simpler config.
- Produces ready-to-deploy distro specific packages directly from source, w/o huge extra tool stacks.
- Platform/distro specific policies can be centrally customized by platform maintainer/operator, w/o having to touch per package build scripts.
See examples/pkg/zlib/metabuild.yaml or examples/pkg/lincity/metabuild.yaml for an examples of the per package configuration.
- purely declarative description of SW structure instead of rules for actual build process
- automatic toolchain and library detection
- pkgconfig and distro packages as 1st class citizen
- builds native distro packages
- automatic runtime dependences for shared libraries and .pc files
- respects distro policies (eg. artifact placements, compression, stripping, ...)
Right now, yet purely research. No releases yet. Will switch to normal development, once a few practical example packages can be fully built/packaged (inc. docs etc) for at least Debian-based distros. After that, more languages and target distros will be added.