Choosing a new build system for Samba

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 15:33 +0000, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:04:56PM -0400, yaberger at ca.ibm.com wrote:
> > Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > < For the non-merged Samba 3 server I would like to maintain
> > < the ability to build it without python for as long as
> > < possible. Even if it means to maintain a separate
> > < configure.in/Makefile.in I think it is worth it. It does not
> > < happen on a weekly basis, but I frequently go to customers
> > < with weird platforms where it is extremely hard to even
> > < download the samba tarfile. Being forced to download and
> > < build python to compile Samba will make my job a lot more
> > < difficult in many situations.
> > 
> > I would *really* appreciate to be able to build samba without having to 
> > maintain a python package on my AIX systems.
> 
> I once used jython 2.2 to run some fairly substantial Python. If jython
> 2.5.1 is as good as claimed you may well be able to do an S4 build.

I wouldn't want to start suggesting using different python versions - if
only because it would be completely untested territory.  In any case
Samba4 requires that C python API, something that I wouldn't expect from
a Java implementation :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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