Re: WAF (Was: build tools)

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On Dec 2, 2007 5:07 PM, Colin Walters <walters redhat com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 16:55 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > Ooh, I'd love to see timing numbers.  The size differences are pretty
> > impressive; it would likely make a noticable impact on times for
> > building releases for garnome users, release team members, and others.
>
> Time I don't think as interesting as "Is it easier to debug than auto*"?
> So we have a hope of new contributors not being totally lost when the
> chain of makefiles generating shell scripts generating makefiles
> generating shell scripts has some error somewhere.
>
> I'm leaning towards yes - I'd take a Python traceback over that any day.

I had implicitly assumed that it couldn't be any harder.  I do agree,
though, that it's definitely important and it'd be better to find out
than just assume.