[Ns-developers] Proposing upgrade of WAF

[Tom Henderson]

Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/12/29 Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org <mailto: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 :-)

Maybe we should issue a last call for comments on this, and merge both 
early next week if there are no other comments?

Tom