Re:Exa Is Deprecated
by saurik on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:13AM
(#37418421)
FWIW, my mileage definitely varied: autotools--which is quite easy if you bother to learn how it works and is then almost infinitely flexible--has pretty much never failed me (I think there was one incident for a while related to building stuff for iOS? regardless this was fixed long ago), but I have had to file and participate in a number of bugs on cargo, most of which are still open :/, and I haven't even developed anything in Rust myself yet... I've merely tried to compile and use stuff other people wrote and run into myriad ridiculous problems.
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Re:Exa Is Deprecated
by faitswulff on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:27AM
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> I've merely tried to compile and use stuff other people wrote and run into myriad ridiculous problems.
Which ones gave you trouble?
> quite easy if you bother to learn how it works
A timeless tautology.
Some things just are easy and pleasant. Caddy server, Cargo, ripgrep come to mind. Some things are easy only once you've learned them. No kidding!
Re:Exa Is Deprecated
by zanellato19 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:16AM
(#37419223)
Which system do you use that cargo failed to compile? On Linux and Mac I have never had anything fail to compile for me with it.
Re:Exa Is Deprecated
by predictabl3 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:37PM
(#37421610)
lol, as a distro package maintainer, I've literally stopped packaging and stopped using software that uses autotools. Given me meson or give me a software compiled in a respectable language, or preferably, death. I'd take cargo and its crates.io namespace warts every day over autotools, and twice on every day of the week.
We'll just have to agree to disagree about autotools :) But I feel like I did try to bother to learn how it works, but nonetheless failed, and I think you're right that it is almost infinitely flexible, but I think that is not a good thing.
Agreed that cargo has bugs and I hope it improves over time (granted: it is not at all new). But say what you want about cargo, at least it's an ethos!
Try getting autotools to work on Windows. Then try getting it to compile with Visual Studio. Then try getting it to cross-compile 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system. If you aren't bald already I promise you'll tear your hair out.