On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Florian Holeczek <flor...@holeczek.de> wrote: >> Hi Noah, >> >>> We're just voting on our first release, and I spotted this file in the root >>> of the source: >>> >>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=blob_plain;f=waf;hb=HEAD >>> >>> It seems to be a sort of hybrid source/binary file. Very strange. >>> >>> Can we ship this? >> >> it's this one: http://code.google.com/p/waf/ >> The website says it's licensed under the "New BSD License". > > This file is a an installer for an entire subsystem of python stuff, > encoded with python pickle, built by their build script. If I > understand what's going on, running it unpacks a tree of python > *source*. So, it's no more good (or bad) than shipping a .tar.bz2 of > some category A open source code (given the license). > > It would be more better, I suppose, to grab the corresponding source > tree and run their build script as part of your build script, but I'm > a bit puzzled as to whether this, as is, is actually a problem.
Benson, I absolutely agree that it would be better to pull from the Waf project source, and build prior to a user using it. That being said, your point about being puzzled as to whether it's a blocker or not is exactly our issue (hence raising it on this list). >> >> Regards >> Florian >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
