On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Derek Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because of my upcoming job I've been looking into build system > alternatives to Autotools/Make. Yesterday, a co-worker here pointed > me to one I hadn't heard of before: Waf ( > http://code.google.com/p/waf/ ) that I thought you guys might be > interested in. > > What I like about it: > > 1. It's full python baby! That means you have the full power of > python behind you when you need to do things like interrogating > generated files from other libraries (like MPICH or Petsc). > 2. It's very object oriented... which makes it easy to extend (like > adding new compiler support). > 3. The syntax is pretty straightforward. > 4. It's fast... it does a lot of caching. It can even use FAM and > other kernel level file monitoring tools to help decide what to build > which is very slick. > 5. It has a lot of good ideas... like auto-reconfigure if you modify > one of the wscript files (which are like Makefiles). > 6. You can "build" all of Waf into one single python file... that you > just distribute with your source code. This alleviates any issues > with making your users install/compile binaries just to build your > source code. > > Some drawbacks: > 1. It's fairly immature. It is being actively developed but I've > already run into areas that just aren't well fleshed out. The nice > thing is... since it's python it's easy to extend to do what you want. > > Anyway... I'm not really advocating switching libMesh over to this > build system... but the idea is interesting. It's always good to look > at build system alternatives.
Hi Derek, any new experience with waf? I've been thinking about using it too in my projects, so I was curious about your experiences. Ondrej ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
