Hi guys,
I haven't mingled much with the list recently, busy I've been on
another open source code base (opensl, the open source viewer for
second life). Going through the pain of compiling on Windows over
there (Mac was a breeze but Windows multiple paths to build had
several dead ends...), I wanted to suggest this building tool some
guys are using over there: SCons (http://scons.tigris.org/). It's
really neat: think about make but all made in... Python... :) The
resulting make files (called SConstruct) are much easier to
understand and, likely, to maintain, using the readable Python syntax
instead of the obscure make "language".
Considering that Python is already a dominant language over at OSAF
and that maintaining the build system is always a pain, I thought you
might be interested by this. Nothing urgent or even necessary, just
an FYI.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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