On Nov 9, 2007 12:27 PM, daniel g. siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so richard hughes and ali sabil told me about waf > (http://code.google.com/p/waf/) as a build system replace for toc2, > which would support translations nicely. has anyone used this tool?
The XMMS2 project uses Waf and we are very happy with it. It's fast and extensible, with a small, but friendly and helpful developer crowd around it. In the early days we used autohell, that got replaced with SCons which we used for a long time, but about a year ago our setup had degraded to something not so maintainable. We had started using SCons pretty early and lots of features we solved in our custom Environment were added to SCons, so we had to either rewrite our current SCons setup, or look elsewhere. A user contributed a complete conversion to waf (which started off as a fork of SCons) and after trying it out we were hooked. waf runs in two steps, first configure, then build. And I cannot stress enough how fast it is. Zooom! Also it has a very nice looks ;) For some examples you could have a look at: http://git.xmms.se/?p=xmms2-devel.git;a=tree The top wscript is pretty big in our case, but that all depends on how configurable your project is. If you browse wscripts down in the scr directory you see that they are pretty slim. There are also a lot of examples in the waf svn repository over at: http://waf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/ And the irc channel can be found on freenode, #waf. And I guess you've seen Richards blog about waf and gnome? http://hughsient.livejournal.com/11016.html Worth noting is that SCons had a GSoC project to implement distributing support that most open source project needs (the largest missing feature of SCons), and SCons has a MUCH bigger community surrounding it, both open source projects, and commercial actors, and a very active mailinglist for support. But that GSoC hasn't been merged yet, and I don't know the timeframe, so starting to use SCons this day requires some hacking to make people who package the software for the distributions happy. More info on the GSoC project here: http://www.scons.org/wiki/GSoC2007/MaciejPasternacki When that has been merged, the choice between waf and SCons gets more delicate. -- Daniel Svensson, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
