Updating waf to 1.6
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Jan 17 00:47:44 UTC 2011
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 13:31 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> But waf does make periodic releases so that might not be the right
> exception. If you could draw parallels between the autotools and waf, that
> might be a way to look at it. I'll note, though, that the autotools have
> a layer that is used to create the build scripts which should not be bundled
> (autoconf, automake, and the like), and a layer that is the actual build
> scripts (configure.ac, Makefile.am, etc) which are bundled so we'd need to
> figure out if waf should fit that same mold.
No, waf does the actual build step as well. Upstream's take on this is:
https://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_packaging_of_waf_in_distributions_discouraged?
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