I'm okay with what's in master now.
On 01/05/2018 09:28 AM, Ian Bruene via devel wrote:
> Embedding the paths directly into the python programs works great, in
> all situations. Right up until it doesn't. One problem is that the
> Gentoo installation workflow is based around moving things around
>
On 01/05/2018 01:25 PM, Achim Gratz via devel wrote:
> I think waf cannot currently cope with a different prefix for
> Python and the rest of the installation, but it should maybe have a way
> to split that on request of the user
waf has options for that, and they work:
./waf configure --prefix=fo
Ian Bruene via devel writes:
> TL;DR: we have gone back to the old way. If someone wants a better
> solution feel free to propose it, *after* showing that it will not
> break FHS, break if the user's assumptions are slightly different from
> ours, or break because a feature is only available on a h
This is a summary of the last few months of intermittent arguing over
the build system. I am glossing over most details as the specifics are
not important to the summary, and I'm too lazy to track down every post
on the matter.
Just before the 1.0 release Fred Wright submitted a patch to sol
