On 11/13/06, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: this just got a bit out of topic > Jim Fulton wrote: > > zc.buildout's main improvement over > > make is the use of Python as it's scripting language. > > speaking as someone who has detested make from the minute I encountered > itsome 30 years ago, I think this is a big improvement. same here although I have to say I have much less years alive :) it gets really nasty went you get into the autotools stuff
I believe for my needs I'll try to get my hand made Makefile don't get too complicated and don't go agains the flow with the gnome people > But it also > makes me wonder why didn't you use scons? It seems like it does > everything make it does only in a more easily understood way and has an > established user base. > I'm interested in that too, I was considering scons as a alternative for a bigger project of mine, any specific reasons why you left it out > for me the main resistance to using scons is that bumpy case words are > significant accessibility impediment. For example, how would you > pronounce "Build" and "build"? For most people they sound exactly the > same. To differentiate requires a lot of additional noise either spoken > or heard. > > ---eric > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
