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!
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Russel.
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