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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>]

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