Re: Mozilla build system now requires python, and MozillaBuild launch

Nelson B wrote:
> In news://news.mozilla.org:119/[email protected]
> Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> 
>> Starting next week the Mozilla build system is going to require python on
>> all platforms. This will allow us to gradually convert various build scripts
>> which are currently written in perl, and start hacking on an autoconf
>> replacement written in python. Any python 2.3 or higher will be acceptable.
>>
>> In addition, I have made a production release of MozillaBuild, version 1.0.
>> The MozillaBuild package [1] is now the recommended build environment for
>> all Mozilla developers on Windows. There were a few bugs with the 1.0
>> releases that have now been corrected in a MozillaBuild 1.1 release
>> candidate [2].
>>
>> After the Tinderboxes have been upgraded to use the MozillaBuild package on
>> trunk, I am going to be discontinuing support for the cygwin build environment.
>>
>> --BDS
>>
>> followup-to mozilla.dev.builds please
>>
>> [1] http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.0.exe
>> [2] http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/tests/MozillaBuildSetup-1.1.exe

Thank you for letting us know.  However, this only affects Mozilla's
build system because NSPR and NSS have their own independent build 
systems.  Moreover,

1. NSPR and NSS's build systems already support MSYS (a Unix
command-line environment similar to MKS Toolkit and Cygwin) on
Windows.  We can choose to continue to support Cygwin in NSPR
and NSS.

2. NSS doesn't even use autoconf, so the replacement of autoconf
by Python scripts may be of interest to NSPR (which uses autoconf)
but is irrelevant to NSS.

Wan-Teh