On Mar 25, 2015 9:28 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 26 March 2015 at 01:57, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > Zachary Ware wrote: > >> On Mar 25, 2015 4:22 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On a related note, is there any information available on how the > >>> "externals" repo is maintained? In particular, should things in there > >>> be exact copies of upstream, or is it OK to include extra data (in > >>> this case, the results of running "configure" for the Windows build)? > >>> It works for me either way, it's just a matter of how the build > >>> process would be structured and maintained. > >> > >> Its not extremely clear how it's "supposed to be" done; look at the differences > >> between how we handle OpenSSL and Tcl/Tk, for example. One way or the other, > >> though, we will store the configure output so that our build doesn't depend on > >> any more than it absolutely has to. > > > > It would be nice for at least one other person to know how to do it. I can't see the SVN logs, but I feel like you're the only person who's touched it in a while :) > > > > As well as the configure output, we sometimes include very light patching (for example, Tcl/Tk currently has a patch to their makefile to work around a VC14 bug). I'm not sure whether that's considered good practice or not, but I prefer only needing to do it once vs. building it into the build system. > > It likely makes sense to try to at least write down the status quo > regarding the externals repo as a new top level section in the > Developer's Guide. That way you'll at least have a shared > understanding of the starting point for any further improvements.
I'll try to get something thrown together at least by the time I leave PyCon. Unfortunately I can't guarantee anything sooner than that. -- Zach On a phone
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