Thx for the explanation,

Looks good to me,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
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