[Ns-developers] Upgrade ns-3 to waf 1.6

[Gustavo Carneiro]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:57, Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 13:35, Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > (?) Good idea, bad? I don't know.  It's more modular, but does it make
> > building ns-3 any easier for end users?  I honestly have no idea.
>
> The long term goal is to split everything and stitch everything
> together with a build script a la jhbuild. I am not advocating doing
> this _now_ but I am trying to point out that we can slowly build the
> necessary infrastructure to make this happen one day in a
> not-so-distant future.
>

OK.  I can agree to slowly adding the infrastructure to do that.

But, in my vision (my humble opinion), future ns-3 will not necessarily need
to have every module split into its own package.  It makes sense to ship a
set of base modules and give it a release number.  Around the the base
modules others may be added.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, UTM, WiN, http://win.inescporto.pt/gjc
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert