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build: Replace Makefile by Earthfile
imo Makefile is not working great here, it is getting little tangly, and breaks often depending on where it is run. Nix could be a replacement, but I do not think anybody is interested in learning the language, we already use a lot of containers, so an Earthfile could make sense: https://github.com/earthly/earthly
(I have never used it before, but it seems to be based on the Dockerfile syntax with Makefile-inspired targets)
Even though Earthly looks really interesting, I'm not a fan of having a lot of new tooling to work on the project. Make is not very sexy, but it's available everywhere. I would prefer to stick to the Makefiles.
That being said, I'd love to hear what others think. @parca-dev/agent-maintainers
I :100: agree with @kakkoyun. Earthly indeed looks very interesting but for now, we also have more context over our Makefile. So it's easy for us to maintain too and I would avoid replacing it unless we've any strong reasons for the same. Thanks for the suggestion though @maxbrunet . I had not come across that project before.
Strongly agree with @kakkoyun and @v-thakkar. While I have had some terrible end-user experiences while building things using make, it is very familiar tooling and given the pace at which new features are being added to parca-agent, it is easy to maintain and contribute to(for newcomers to parca) for the time being and maybe slightly early(for both parca and earthly) to consider replacing our current build system.
That said, going to try out Earthly for my next Friday project, looks super cool; thanks for bringing it up! :D
Ok, no problem, I might do a POC at some point anyway, just to experiment with it
Another alternative could be Mage (https://github.com/magefile/mage). We need to experiment, though.