Re:The only build system that might someday replace make (2010)
by kinkrtyavimoodh on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:13PM
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Could you talk a bit about your experience? The two points you mentioned feel more like theoretical / principled opinions rather than on the ground experience / issues
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Re:The only build system that might someday replace make (2010)
by tbrock on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:20PM
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Everything feels beta. It crashes on about 10% of our builds with an inscrutable java error deep in the bowels of bazel. The solution, according to the bazel authors, is to rebuild, which works so our ci pipeline has an auto retry mechanism because bazel is so buggy. I’m not joking.
On top of a that, everyone on my team had to learn skylark, their rules for docker, their rules for node, their... I’m exhausted just thinking about it...
Why bother unless you’ve got google size? It’s good software written by smart people, but I know I made a mistake in choosing it for our build solution.
Re:The only build system that might someday replace make (2010)
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:03PM
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Would it be possible for you to link to the GitHub issue for that crash?