Re: WAF (Was: build tools)

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 11:43 +0000, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 
> 
> 2007/12/2, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>:
>         On Dec 2, 2007 3:46 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
>         <gjc inescporto pt> wrote:
>         > In case anyone is interested, feel free to try out a 100%
>         WAF-ied
>         > version of gnome-python: 
>         >
>         > http://www.gnome.org/~gjc/gnome-python-2.21.0.tar.bz2
>         >
>         > The WAF based tarball (including a self contained waf
>         script, which is 
>         > all you need to build) is 249K, while an autotools version
>         is 424K.  I
>         > could reduce the size even more if I removed configure.ac
>         and the
>         > Makefile.am's.  It also builds much faster, especially if
>         you count
>         > the ./autogen.sh part, though I didn't to get actual
>         numbers.
>         
>         Ooh, I'd love to see timing numbers.  The size differences are
>         pretty 
>         impressive; it would likely make a noticable impact on times
>         for
>         building releases for garnome users, release team members, and
>         others.
>         Anyone want to cook up a patch for libwnck/metacity so I can
>         see how
>         quick and small it is on my module(s)?  (Hey, if I'm too lazy
>         to deal 
>         with autotools for my modules and almost always delegate it, I
>         can
>         also be too lazy to deal with any other system, right?)
> 
> I might try.
> 
> So far, libwnck looks pretty simple, except for the glib-mkenums which
> seems to call a lot of shell commands. 
> 
> What's exactly glib-mkenum used for? (I kind of guess from the name,
> but I would like to have more background of the problem that it
> solves).
> Does anyone has done this mkenum thing with waf already?

I never used it (don't need it) but I think it is in waf already.
PackageKit uses it.

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
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