12:33 <farkuhar> midfavila: no need to switch to mastodon if you want to vent, there are plenty of IRC channels where off-topic rants will find a more receptive audience. #crux-social, for example.

20:20 <riteo> heyheyhey!

20:20 <riteo> i'm back!

20:21 <riteo> how is it going dear kissers

20:25 <sad_plan> riteo: very good. recently tossed pkgconf in the gargbage, and switched it out with u-config. rughly half the size :D

20:25 <sad_plan> hbu

20:26 <riteo> u-what!?

20:26 <riteo> I'm intrigued

20:26 <riteo> regarding me news: I just started university!

20:26 <riteo> I'm a big kid now :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDd

20:34 <sad_plan> u-config https://github.com/skeeto/u-config :D

20:34 <sad_plan> awesome :D

21:08 <riteo> this sounds very cool!

21:08 <riteo> > support existing pkg-config based builds, not make more of them

21:08 <riteo> why though, is there even an alternative to pkgconf?

21:10 <sad_plan> pkgconf is a smaller alternative to pkg-config. pkg-config seems to be the standard format afaik. u-config is just a simpler implementation, with less of the features

21:10 <sad_plan> s/simpler/even simpler/

21:11 <sad_plan> u-config is just shy of 3500k loc, whereas pkgconf is just shy of 44k

21:12 <sad_plan> id say this is in the idea of 80% of functionality, with 20% of code

21:12 <sad_plan> much like cproc as an example

21:12 <riteo> I'm wondering if the author is just a source-based-distro user or if they're like against pkg-config as a concept

21:12 <riteo> thinking about it are there even alternatives?

21:13 <fultilt> sad_plan: I assume you meant 3.5kloc for u-config?

21:13 <sad_plan> fultilt: correct. my bad

21:14 <sad_plan> riteo: some packages has an alternative way of finding headers/libraries. i know some xlibs do this with custom variables

21:15 <sad_plan> I did made an attempt of purging pkgconf altogether, but iirc, I ran in to more issues building things than I initially wanted. so I reverted.

21:22 <sad_plan> riteo: he seems to be a windows user, or favor windows or something. but he also seems to value portablity above all. all of his projects lists highly portabe in his describtion

21:23 <riteo> that's interesting

21:23 <riteo> portability is a nice concern

21:23 <sad_plan> > My preferred operating system is Debian

21:24 <sad_plan> I stand corrected

21:25 <sad_plan> but yes, portability is a nice goal