Release: waf vs install directories

James Browning jamesb192 at jamesb192.com
Wed Mar 26 18:51:40 UTC 2025


On Wednesday, March 26, 2025 11:09:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time Hal Murray 
wrote:
> If somebody is still using Python 2, do they have to manually fix the link
> from waf to point to the old waf?  Or is there some magic that takes care
> of that?

THERE IS NO MAGIC HERE, nor any fancy Python tricks.

Python 2.7 works with either version of waf.

Python 2.7 extension building is not tested by me because I oopsed my Python 
2.7 install.

I do something like the following to use a specific version of python and waf:
python2.7 waf-2.0.25 ${ARGS}

I recommend against futzing with the symlink unless you  intend to change the 
default back to waf 2.0.25




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