<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chris Barker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Güttler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guettliml@thomas-guettler.de" target="_blank">guettliml@thomas-guettler.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>> I have a dream: For packaging and building package provides only **data**. Data is condition-less: No single "if", "def" or method call. Just data: json or yaml ...<br>
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> Even for complex packages.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>It's a nice dream -- but I think there is more or less a consensus on this list that you really can't do everything completely declaratively. I know I would find it very frustrating to have to hard-code everything up front.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've seen this sentiment mentioned several times... Having only had experience with sdist-style packages which are dead simple to define, do you have any examples of some specific thing that's a pain to do declaratively?</div><div><br></div><div>-W </div></div></div></div>