Zachary Ware wrote: > On Mar 25, 2015 4:22 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On a related note, is there any information available on how the >> "externals" repo is maintained? In particular, should things in there >> be exact copies of upstream, or is it OK to include extra data (in >> this case, the results of running "configure" for the Windows build)? >> It works for me either way, it's just a matter of how the build >> process would be structured and maintained. > > Its not extremely clear how it's "supposed to be" done; look at the > differences > between how we handle OpenSSL and Tcl/Tk, for example. One way or the other, > though, we will store the configure output so that our build doesn't depend on > any more than it absolutely has to.
It would be nice for at least one other person to know how to do it. I can't see the SVN logs, but I feel like you're the only person who's touched it in a while :) As well as the configure output, we sometimes include very light patching (for example, Tcl/Tk currently has a patch to their makefile to work around a VC14 bug). I'm not sure whether that's considered good practice or not, but I prefer only needing to do it once vs. building it into the build system. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
