Re: SCons
Nicholas Steinberg <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:03:48 -0600
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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. -- MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING