Re: waf - was New GObject Introspection tutorial

[Bernhard Schuster <schuster bernhard googlemail com>]

Disclaimer - I am familiar with waf, not so much with autotools.

Waf targeting the direct inclusion into a project looks awkward at the beginning, but is an advantage actually. Mainly because that can prevent buildfailures based on non-backwards compatible changes in the buildsystem.

Another advantage is the fact that waf is (usually) just a couple of lines compared to tons of autotools foo.

The documentation for waf is also very good, and a lot of examples are included within the upstream git repo.

Just saying, waf definitly has its advantages, though I can understand the continued use of autotools - especially in a tutorial - as quite a lot of projects use autotools.

This should not be seen as a invitation for a flamewar, just an attempt to give another viewing angle on that topic.

Best

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Simon McVittie & lt;simon mcvittie collabora co uk> wrote:

On 14/06/13 23:14, Colin Walters wrote:

Not that waf is bad exactly

It's perhaps worth pointing out that waf is pretty awkward for distributions with a strong commitment to "ship source code for everything, build everything from its actual source, and avoid duplication": <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/02/msg00714.html> The Autotools aren't without their flaws, but we've got pretty good at dealing with those. S _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list