New AOSP Branch Details Potential Build System Upgrades?

While there are frequent unexplained changes and pushes to Google’s AOSP repositories, an interesting-looking new branch has been pushed out recently, called “master-soong”. Taking a look at the changes made to the manifest repository (which is used to specify the repositories to be downloaded when building Android), it appears there are some new repositories making an appearance.

Of note here are new prebuilt repositories for Go, and Ninja. Go is a programming language, created by Google, which compiles to produce native code, yet has many features which make it easier to use than the traditional natively compiled languages (such as C).

Ninja is a make replacement, by a Googler, fo. . . READ ON »

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