On 02/12/2007, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In case anyone is interested, feel free to try out a 100% WAF-ied > version of gnome-python: > > http://www.gnome.org/~gjc/gnome-python-2.21.0.tar.bz2 > > The WAF based tarball (including a self contained waf script, which is > all you need to build) is 249K, while an autotools version is 424K. I > could reduce the size even more if I removed configure.ac and the > Makefile.am's. It also builds much faster, especially if you count > the ./autogen.sh part, though I didn't to get actual numbers. > > When I have some more time I will see about making jhbuild use waf, to > get people testing this new system. Later, if no serious problems or > objections are found, I would like to switch to it.
One thing that concerns me a great deal is that waf does not seem to have a unit testing suite. This makes it pretty hard (impossible) to provide a no-regressions policy, especially in a dynamic language such as Python. Maybe it is fine that all projects can just stick to the version they air with the first time, but personally I would very much like it to be a trivial matter to update the version of my build system. Cheers, Mikkel
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