Re: SCons

Nicholas Steinberg <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:03:48 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.y.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:34:10 -0500, Matthew A. Nicholson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I was wondering if you all ever considered SCons (www.scons.org) as a build
> system.  I am willing to conver y-windows over.
> 
> 

If Y becomes popular, this could be a good oportunity to get a Make
alternative's foot in the door. Another idea might be Apache's Ant (
http://ant.apache.org/ ). I guess this could be seen as a fight
between Python (SCons) and Java (Ant). We should go with whatever is
most practical (even Make, if necessary), but, in the fight between
Python and Java, ignoring all other factors, a) it's possible more
Linux users have Python installed than Java, and b) Python is OSS/FS,
and Java isn't.

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