From c4b691f2fb3e4ecbdd10244e705098602c945533 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jamie Gennis Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:34:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add an initial README.md --- README.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf0f16c --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +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.