On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:19:16PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:40:40PM +1100, Ian McWilliam wrote: > > On 1/01/2014 7:00 AM, Brad Smith wrote: > > > > <snip> > > >Sadly enough autohell is the suck least of build infrastructure and > > >there is a lot of documentation and knowledge regarding its inner > > >workings. IMO not something that can be said about the other build > > >infrastructure whether it is relatively common or not. > > > > > >It might not be m4, but it is python, that's a pretty heavy dependency > > >for build infrastructure. > > > > > > > Yup and any new samba + external samba deps is riddled with it. It's what is > > stopping me from moving forward atm. Need to learn python. At least I have a > > few weeks to pull out some python books. > > > > A newer in tree waf, or multiple versions would help ease the situation > > rather than patch the hell out of samba build infrastructure. > > I've moved away all waf users from it (ie x11/gigolo & www/vteplugin) > but i'd rather remove waf from the tree instead of having someone losing > time on that crap. Given that it's clearly hostile to any packaging > effort, why bother with it ? Just do the minimum and patch all the > bundled copies.
I agree. -- Antoine
