[little ot]Re: Newly rewritten developer docs for DSSS

[BCS]

Reply to Gregor,

> Olli Aalto wrote:
> 
>> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> 
>>> Because DSSS' README.software_engineers was pretty bad, I've
>>> completely rewritten it from the ground up. It's not yet finished,
>>> but it's definitely ready to receive some intensive feedback.
>>> 
>>> So please, read
>>> http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/trunk/docs/README.software_engi
>>> neers and yell at me. All responses welcome.
>>> 
>> It would be nice to be able to build and install a project in one go.
>> For example:
>> dsss build install
>> or just
>> dsss install
>> (which would do a build if the target is older than its sources).
>> Also how do I mark a section in dsss.conf to be non-installable?
>> For example I have a test/demo application for a library which I
>> don't
>> want to go to dsss/bin.
>> O.
>> 
> Unfortunately, these are both lacks in DSSS, not lacks in its
> documentation :)
> 
> The current way to make a section non-installable is to simply make it
> non-default. This is a fairly new feature so it didn't yet make it
> into the documentation. Note to self: Add it to the documentation :P
> 
> That being said, there should be a better way.
> 
> I've made some tickets:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/ticket/105
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/ticket/106
> - Gregor Richards
> 

What is your thoughts on the idea of using miniD as a scripting language 
inside DSSS?

This would go a long ways towards adding the kinds of things I want DSSS 
to do.