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SparkBuild source code and licence terms
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Dear SparkBuild community, I have several questions about SparkBuild: a) Is or will SparkBuild's source code be available? If yes, on what terms? b) Is SparkBuild extensible? Can its behaviour be…
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Scott Castle Nov. 5, 2009.
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These are really interesting possibilities. Some of the engineers on the SparkBuild team have echoed option 'a' - we're considering something like this for a future release. Option 'b' is actually much more interesting within the scope of our commer…
Hi Scott,
Regarding extensibility of emake:
a) It should be possible to define a new function through the C API. That is within make scripts I should be able to use a new function
$(user-defined-function arguments)
which is really defined via the…
I'm interested in learning more about your ideas on a C API for make, especially since makefiles are effectively descriptions of state machines. What would it do?
Regarding extending make: The idea behind Electric Cloud's 'emake' is to maintain per…
Hi Scott,
a) Understood. However, as a potential user I should warn you that keeping the source code closed will force you to relinguish some of the benefits of open source code available. See (b) for details. If this is your plan I think you shoul…
Hi Semih,
a) We have no plans to publish the SparkBuild source at this time; it uses much of the same code as our commercial products so it's hard for us to release it. However, we are committed to keeping SparkBuild free for commercial use (we won…
Dear SparkBuild community,
I have several questions about SparkBuild:
a) Is or will SparkBuild's source code be available? If yes, on what terms?
b) Is SparkBuild extensible? Can its behaviour be modified or customized by its users (say via a plu…
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