[Ns-bugs] [Bug 434] build system revisions

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http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=434





--- Comment #5 from Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org>  2008-12-16 12:58:52 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > NSC part is also done now.
> > > 
> > > I think all that is missing now is the 'dist' script.
> > > 
> > 
> > download.py fails if bazaar is not installed.
> 
> And what should we do in this case?
>   1. Skip pybindgen and disable python;
>   2. Catch the exception and show a more user friendly error message, but
> otherwise abort just the same.
> 

I would suggest to do skip pybindgen and print out a error message like we have
now ("PybindGen missing and could not be retrieved)"  However, it would be nice
to allow the user to manually move over pybindgen installation from somewhere
else and have ./waf configure in the ns-3-dev directory later find it
successfully.  

The rationale is, users may be running simulations on machines where they do
not have privileges to install bzr.  But maybe they can download it on another
machine and move it over.


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