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commite7a26ff65ae7cf3f2a2699539413394308000e5e[log] [tgz]
authorColin Cross <ccross@google.com>Mon Jan 26 15:07:06 2015 -0800
committerColin Cross <ccross@android.com>Wed Feb 04 11:23:46 2015 -0800
tree7825051b4dd8acc17ddb00b15f78edcc0cb9ee14
parentc4b691f2fb3e4ecbdd10244e705098602c945533 [diff]
Add overall Blueprint documentation

Change-Id: I27f0f010c32b3abe0107e69af830716ab728485a
1 file changed
tree: 7825051b4dd8acc17ddb00b15f78edcc0cb9ee14
  1. bootstrap/
  2. bpfmt/
  3. bpmodify/
  4. deptools/
  5. parser/
  6. pathtools/
  7. proptools/
  8. Blueprints
  9. bootstrap.bash
  10. build.ninja.in
  11. context.go
  12. context_test.go
  13. doc.go
  14. LICENSE
  15. live_tracker.go
  16. mangle.go
  17. module_ctx.go
  18. ninja_defs.go
  19. ninja_strings.go
  20. ninja_strings_test.go
  21. ninja_writer.go
  22. ninja_writer_test.go
  23. package_ctx.go
  24. README.md
  25. scope.go
  26. singleton_ctx.go
  27. unpack.go
  28. unpack_test.go
README.md

Blueprint Build System

Blueprint is a meta-build system that reads in Blueprints files that describe modules that need to be built, and produces a Ninja (http://martine.github.io/ninja/) manifest describing the commands that need to be run and their dependencies. Where most build systems use built-in rules or a domain-specific langauge to describe the logic for converting module descriptions to build rules, Blueprint delegates this to per-project build logic written in Go. For large, heterogenous projects this allows the inherent complexity of the build logic to be maintained in a high-level language, while still allowing simple changes to individual modules by modifying easy to understand Blueprints files.