On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
nyh> Does using SCons require the end-user (who does the installation)
nyh> to install both Python and SCons, or are these tools only
nyh> necessary for the developers? If the installer requires Python
nyh> and SCons, isn't this a problem for portability?
I think the SCons modules (it's basically just a bunch of python
modules and a couple of wrapper python scripts) themselves can be
built in to the project, but python needs to be installed. However,
considering the spread of python, I'm not sure it's that much of a
problem, and it poses less portability problems than sh, the sh
builtins and common Unix utilities and make. Python is ported to many
platforms (including VMS, which I view as a proof of portability).
Even if there is a lot of stuff that depends on python today, I would
rather see ctwm not be depending on it in this way. IMHO the less
dependencies the better, no matter if it's during build time or running
the application.
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//Aho
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