On Friday 24 October 2008, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 01:19 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 23 October 2008, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > Waf is interesting and with the right amount of Python decorators and > > > Python nose testcase implementation, the build dependency information > > > can become comparable to make. > > > > > > However, here are my questions and points of concern: > > > 1. It's not mature. > > > 2. It's duplicating a lot of similar logic from Python nose > > > unnecessarily, in a not really intuitive way. > > > 3. It doesn't have a comparable set of logic to GNU make's implicit > > > rules, which greatly reduce the make logic -- this is a double-edged > > > sword. > > > 3. Can it reliably setup parallel build processes? > > > > ive never heard of waf. picking "the new hot system" that has no real > > penetration or community is a bad idea. autoconf is probably the best at > > the moment. especially because people seem intent on using LTP for > > non-Linux targets. > > Although you put that in a somewhat troll-ish way, that was my original > concern about using waf.
it wasnt trollish as much as fact. every time i review a new build system, all i see are mistakes and design limitations that autotools addressed and overcame ages ago. > However, being new is not necessarily a bad thing, waf does have very > interesting features. Also, it's perfectly usable for non-Linux targets > for that matter, since it depends only and only python >= 2.3, which is > available for a number of platforms. the fact it depends on python is a bad thing imo. since we seem to care about people being able to build on not only non-Linux but really old Linux systems, then autoconf is really the only solution that makes sense. -mike
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