Re: [proaudio] ardour 3.9999 convert to waf??

[allan <sonofzev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:26 PM, allan <sonofzev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>    If WAF is important then I expect that Paul will move to that at a
> >> reasonable time. He was at the leading edge of switching to scons.
> >> He'll pick a good time if it's important.
> >>
> >> Just my 2 cents,
> >> Mark
> > Mark
> > I don't want to offend or sound personal, but I think you aren't quite
> > following me.
> >  Paul has implemented WAF with Ardour.
> > Although it is Drobilla (Dave Robillard) that coded the scripts.
> > I noticed this, as a response to bug 2693 on the ardour mantis system
> > was to compile using WAF as opposed to scons. I logged bug 2696 on the
> > basis that it wouldn't build again, but then tried the instructions for
> > building with waf and it worked perfectly.
> >
> > I am posting this as a question on the forum to get a conclusive answer
> > as to which is the preferred method of building but I am pretty sure
> > that WAF is now Paul's preferred supported method for building Ardour
> > 3.xxxx
> >
> 
> In that case I stand completely corrected. If it's in the main Ardour
> build could it could/should be used in the pro-audio overlay. However
> this would take an ebuild developer to make some changes which is what
> you have asked for so nicely.
> 
> I am not an ebuild developer, but I thought one of the advantages of
> portage was that ebuilds are relatively simple to implement and
> maintain. If that's true then maybe yhey aren't all that hard to
> modify for something like this? If you were game you could create your
> own ebuild by copying the existing Ardour stuff (just a couple of
> files) and then modify and test it. If it works then submit it. If it
> doesn't maybe you can ask some questions here or on Gentoo-user and
> figure it out without too much pain?
> 
> Anyway, I apologize for not totally understanding the state of this
> build support in Ardour. I *seldom* ever look at that stuff. It bores
> me silly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

I'll give it a go.. but maybe not just yet... Here is the final word
from Paul himself.  Which basically says that we probably need to be
prepared to cut the SVN version by hand from time to time. 

"We are definitely moving towards waf, but currently the build scripts
for waf do not accomplish 100% of the build. So for now you need to use
scons, which may break occasionally, and then optionally switch to
waf." 






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