Colin's reply to the followup question about the last paragraph is interesting: On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Colin Cross (ccr...@android.com) wrote: >

Colin's reply to the followup question about the last paragraph is interesting: On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Colin Cross (ccr...@android.com) wrote: >On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Dmitry Blotsky <dmitry....@gmail.com> wrote: >> These changes are a precursor to a much larger change that will >> replace all the Android.mk files with data files using a format that >> provides much better error checking, even faster builds, and 100% >> reliable incremental builds. >> >> Are you referring to the ninja format, or to something else? > >Android.mk files will be replaced with Blueprints files. For an >in-progress example, see >https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/libc/Android.bp. Blueprint takes build descriptions written in Go and generates ninja files from them: https://github.com/google/blueprint/ https://github.com/google/blueprint/