[Ns-developers] Proposing upgrade of WAF

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2008/12/29 Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org>

> Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to propose to merge with branch gjc/ns-3-waf1.5, which upgrades
>> the
>> WAF version, from 1.4.x to a better maintained 1.5.x version (enhanced
>> with
>> a couple of waf tools of my own).
>>
>> The WAF version used is a slightly modified version of WAF trunk,
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~gjc/waf/cmd<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Egjc/waf/cmd>
>>
>> The ns-3 branch updated with this WAF is available at:
>> http://code.nsnam.org/gjc/ns-3-waf1.5/
>>
>> Any objections?
>>
>>
> No objections from me.  Are we also ready to move to the allinone [1] build
> system?  It seems to me that we can't move forward on fully testing the
> allinone system until we disable the ns-3-dev code that downloads components
> during waf configure.


I asked[1] in the bug tracker whether we should remove the downloading code
from the wscripts, and no one answered me.  From your comment, I guess the
answer is yes :-)

There still isn't a 'dist' script, but the downloading and building scripts
are ready (as in, ready to start testing).

[1] http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=434#c2

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert