Notes.nt

[06/20/25]
I want to practice my programming by writing a C++ package manager... in C++. What could go wrong?

Ooh, NOTE TO SELF: I could automate my Makefile setup (and kinda really want to). That could also be a prt of this project as it'll probably be invoking GNU make under the hood (altho, I could just manually call compilers and shit myself... oooh...).

Finally fucking finished the build system and the project structure. On god, this is all just validating the project's existence: ~4hrs spent on setup alone.

[07/22/25]
Coming back to this project; I think I finally have a really good solid idea for how I want to structure my Makefiles. At least 90%. I might change how the "selection" process works, but the main idea for this "build system" program is that I don't want to have to use the program to build my projects, I just want it to generate Makefiles for me.

I want to have options for:
    - compiler choice
    - cross compatibility
    - building as a library
    - colored output
    - versioning
    - running other, user-created Makefiles
    - 'clean' variations (like a dirty clean)
    - various flag-related options
        - common debug flags
            - architecture-specific flags
        - C++ vs C specific flags
            - architecture-specific flags

I also want default options for all of these; the default option will be my personal preference.

I've got a prototype down that correctly generates the Makefile for this project! It's very bare bones, so it's already very close to being a good default Makefile. The only real issues with the "default" Makefile are that the source directories are hardcoded to this project, but I could fix that by asking the user for the source code directory and then doing some recursive searching to find all the relevant directories.

I got the recursive directory search done! It's a prototype but it works pretty well so far, and even returns prettified text!

[07/28/25]
I created the `getargs` library today and decided that version 2.0 of `makemake` will start off by removing all argument-handling code and replacing it with `getargs`.

[07/29/25]
I'm going to implement source directory updating for `makemake`. In under an hour.

I JUST MANAGED TO FINISH IN UNDER AN HOUR!! WOOOOO!!

[08/04/25]
I want to implement more ways of "updating" the Makefile. Specifically, I want to add a flag for changing the C/C++ standards.

Well, I didn't do that but I did update the "update source directories" functionality to not only be its own function but to also be much much MUCH better at what it does.

[08/13/25]
I want to finish my work on the overhaul and wrap this all up in a neat bow.

First off, I want to make sure that duplicate library directories are ignored. I can do that with `std::list::sort` followed by `std::list::unique`.

Welp, I finally finished! I still have lots to do, but for now I'm pretty happy with how this program has turned out.