Anybody using the old waf?

Fred Wright fw at fwright.net
Mon Mar 31 00:00:57 UTC 2025


On Sun, 30 Mar 2025, Fred Wright wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025, James Browning via devel wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 30, 2025 4:44:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time Fred Wright via
>> devel wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not sure what you mean by "my patches", given that I've never
>>> submitted any for this issue, though I'd suggested what such patches might
>>> do.
>> 
>> The patches you were probably going to write if I had no meddled.
>> 
>>> BTW, in general, when importing and modifying code, it's best to do those
>>> in separate commits, so that one can easily see the modifications without
>>> wading through a ginormous diff against /dev/null.
>> 
>> I HAVE NOT MODIFIED THE VERSION OF WAF IN THE TREE. Is that sufficiently
>> blunt? or do I need to bring a big ugly stick of joint shattering into 
>> this.
>
> Then how do you explain that the upstream version has 'python' but the ntpsec 
> version has 'python3'?

Actually, to be fair, I didn't find a file actually called 'waf' in the 
upstream repo, but I did find a 'wscript' shebanged to 'python', and 
assumed that that was indicative.  I assumed that 'waf-light' isn't the 
right thing, so I didn't check that one.

Fred Wright


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