support build/clean/update scripts for modules #37
Description
If we do that right, this could help with the following use cases:
- Simplify the MyThOS build in regard to 3rdparty libraries. Modules could download, down-/upgrade, and build the libraries.
- Support modules that require some file transformation (e.g. preprocessor). In MyThOS, there is currently only one module that could use that, however, it might be useful when porting benchmarks such as Splash-3
Although scripts could be used to retrieve files, this issue is orthogonal to #19. It enables to have files separate from the module files and download/generate them on demand, but might not be used to obtain the module files itself.
This is a low priority issue and might require some thought to get it right ... if we decide to do it.