On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 13:31 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
But waf does make periodic releases so that might not be the right
exception. If you could draw parallels between the autotools and waf, that
might be a way to look at it. I'll note, though, that the autotools have
a layer that is used to create the build scripts which should not be bundled
(autoconf, automake, and the like), and a layer that is the actual build
scripts (configure.ac, Makefile.am, etc) which are bundled so we'd need to
figure out if waf should fit that same mold.
No, waf does the actual build step as well. Upstream's take on this is:
https://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_packaging_of_waf_in_distrib...
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