Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-03-18 Thread lilypond
Comment #8 on issue 979 by percival.music.ca: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 dev/gperciva, just pushed (after previously being deleted), contains the current state of waf. I have no clue what happened to dev/waf; that's a topic for -devel. We need

Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-03-17 Thread lilypond
Comment #7 on issue 979 by Carl.D.Sorensen: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 waf has a node list, which is a set of file pointers in memory. There cannot be a *node* with the same name in the source directory and the build directory. In fact, there is a

Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-03-17 Thread lilypond
Comment #6 on issue 979 by Carl.D.Sorensen: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 Two items: 1) Thomas is unconvinced. In his mind this is a technical limitation, not a yet-to-be-implemented feature. In his words, "Copying files around usually indicates a po

Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-03-17 Thread lilypond
Comment #5 on issue 979 by Carl.D.Sorensen: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 Two items: 1) Thomas is unconvinced. In his mind this is a technical limitation, not a yet-to-be-implemented feature. In his words, "Copying files around usually indicates a po

Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-03-17 Thread lilypond
Comment #4 on issue 979 by Carl.D.Sorensen: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 OK, I'll try to convince Thomas. Carl -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adju

Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-03-16 Thread lilypond
Comment #3 on issue 979 by percival.music.ca: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 That's not good enough for our builds -- we want to make this easy for non-technical doc-writers. Adding a random subdir is going to break html docs. If there's any desire t

Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-03-15 Thread lilypond
Comment #2 on issue 979 by Carl.D.Sorensen: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 Thomas Nagy (head waf developer) claims this is desired behavior -- i.e. you can't have a file in both blddir and srcdir. He suggests that you move the source file to another

Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-02-12 Thread lilypond
Comment #1 on issue 979 by percival.music.ca: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 Work on this is currently stuck because the below doesn't work (waf barfs when there's an output file with the same name as the input filename). Somebody needs to coordinat

Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

2010-01-15 Thread lilypond
Status: Accepted Owner: Labels: Type-Build Priority-Postponed Maintainability New issue 979 by percival.music.ca: waf build system http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979 Due to lots of problems and limitations, it would be nice if we switch the build system to waf. Estimate