On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:50:55AM -0700, Alex Wang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > A long time ago, the Open vSwitch build did not depend on Python (whereas > > the runtime did), so the "make dist" based distribution included the > > results of Python build tools. Later, the build began building on Python, > > but the distribution still included some of those results, because no one > > had gone to the trouble of changing them. This commit changes the > > Makefiles not to distribute Python-generated files but instead to just > > generate them at build time. > > Could you explain more on "Later, the build began building on Python"?
That's bad phrasing. I mean that, later, the build did start to require direct use of Python. One example is the extract-ofp-actions program, which always runs during the build (its build products are not distributed). _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
