I also agree that the way waf works is quite weird to use, but this is actually how most of the installers works under windows or some on MacOS: the code of the installers is embedded into the distributed package. This violates the debian packaging rules, and I think this will be the same with rust.
I however really like this approach. You don't have a huge among of dependencies to setup in order to build your package. This is not a problem on debian where apt does to marveillous job, but on Windows/Mac/generic linux/arm, .. this is a nightmare. One more point in favor of CMake to build rust: you can build android/arm/misc (thanks to Makefile) with the same CMakeList.txt files, or with external module inclusion. I also agree that its syntax used to be quite ugly (the famous if() / else() / endif()), but not so much in the lastest versions... But if you require python for building, scons is the perfect, natural candidate. ----- Gaetan 2014/1/10 SiegeLord <slab...@aim.com> > On 01/10/2014 06:19 AM, Robert Knight wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> CMake does have a few things going for it: >> > > One more consideration is that LLVM can be built with CMake afaik, so if > we switch to CMake we may be able to drop the autotools dependency, which > is a more annoying dependency to fulfill (on Windows) than CMake (I don't > know if Rust has other components that require autotools though). > > Along the same lines, we also require Python for whatever reason, so SCons > would be a natural option too (it can't build LLVM though). I'd only use > SCons conditional on it accepting a Rust dependency scanner into its > source: using its current custom scanner infrastructure is not practical as > I found out. > > As for waf... they and Debian have been having a tiff (e.g. see > http://waf-devel.blogspot.com/2012/01/debian.html , > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00207.html ). I would > not suggest it based on that. > > -SL > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >
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