Re: [PATCH] Add 'waf-build-system'.

[Ludovic Courtès]

rekado <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Unlike the Python build system, however, there is a configure phase, and
>>> not everything important happens during the install phase.
>>
>> OK.  Did you find it more appropriate to extend ‘gnu-build-system’
>> rather than ‘python-build-system’?
>
> The way I see it the waf-build-system is a descendant of the
> gnu-build-system in that it has the same phases; it only uses a
> different tool (namely the waf script).  The python-build-system on the
> other hand concentrates everything in the install "phase".
>
> The waf-build-system looks similar to the python-build-system only
> because the waf script needs to be run with a python interpreter, and it
> could be either version 2 or 3.  This is why I extended the
> gnu-build-system (as a "parent") and imported the default-python
> procedures from python-build-system (as a "cousin").
>
> Does this make any sense?

Yes it does.  Thanks for the explanation!

Ludo’.