eddieringle/crea

C's soulmate

crea's Issues

Dependency management

Wildcard support in source trees

It would be convenient to use wildcards in source listings to specify a range of files, like:

sources:
- src/*.c
- src/util/**.c

Where * would find all files in that directory and ** would also recurse into subdirectories.

Support external dependency archives

The developer should be able to write a custom crea.yaml file for a particular project and specify it as an 'external' project, meaning its source is found elsewhere. An example might be this one for libyaml:

name: libyaml
version: 0.1.5
authors:
- Kirill Simonov <[email protected]>
external: true
source-archive: http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.5.tar.gz
library-type: static
sources:
- src/api.c
- src/dumper.c
- src/emitter.c
- src/loader.c
- src/parser.c
- src/reader.c
- src/scanner.c
- src/writer.c
headers:
- src/yaml_private.h
includes:
- include/yaml.h
cflags:
 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DYAML_DECLARE_STATIC

source-archive and library-type are working titles, of course. source-achive specifies where a source archive can be downloaded from, and library-type denotes whether that project will be built as a shared or static library (if it is a library at all). You can also note the includes tree, which lists public header files to be installed along with the built libraries.

Support for libtar/libzip/zlib will be needed in order to process archive files. Or, perhaps something like 7zip or libarchive could be used to support those and more in one fell swoop.