On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 16:51 +0200, Hans Dockter wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
[ . . . ]
> > It is just that Waf, and to a lesser extent SCons, have the great
> > ability to ship a complete build system as a single 80kb file  
> > dependent
> > only on a Python installation.  The trick used is to ship a Python
> > script that contains a compressed form of the system -- if it needs
> > extracting it does so.  The extracted system can be deleted.
> 
> That would be wonderful to have. But Scons can assume Python to be  
> installed. Gradle only assumes Java to be installed.

You may not have intended this, but the above is actually a great
argument for saying that Python is a much better language for writing
build frameworks than Java!
-- 
Russel.
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