Re: SCons

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:36:46PM -0500, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
> Scons does plenty make and automake and 
> autoconf can't do, precicly why Id used it for the linux bulid of Doom 3.

Handwaving. And trivially false. Which is why almost everybody else
uses make.

> And many will admin autotools is not a perfectly functional build system.

Most of whom are idiots, and the rest are people who have never read
the manual. I deal with such people on a daily basis; I have not yet
found one who had read the manual before trying to use these complex
tools. Every failure of autoconf and automake users is invariably the
result of cargo-cult programming.

> In addition, I could write SConscrips for y-windows and build with scons, 
> and you could still keep your autotools stuff and build with that.  The two 
> can co-exist.

This is tautologically true for any possible changeset. You could
rewrite Y in a mixture of BBC BASIC and Prolog, and it would be able
to exist in the same world - but it would be stunningly pointless.

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