2014/1/2 Landry Breuil <lan...@rhaalovely.net>: > 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'll learn jig to dance it on the WAF grave. -- WBR, Vadim Zhukov
