On Aug 31, 2006, at 4:23 AM, Erick Tryzelaar wrote: > I played around with SCons and the felix system a long time ago. It > was pretty nice, except for the fact that it took about 2 minutes > to run before it did anything, just to resolve all the > dependencies. Also, this was just running over all of our test > code, not even our full build system. So, it proved to be > completely impractical.
That's a bit of interesting information! Thanks! I suggested it because I had worked with it on Yhc and it seemed to do well there but that build process did not have nearly the number of dependencies Felix does. > In brief, his argument is that it's generally faster to just try a > brute force build (with our system) than it is to spend all that > time trying to determine the dependencies. I can imagine a > situation where that wouldn't make sense, such as if the compile > time was vastly higher than the dependency search, but we aren't > running into that problem. The current "brute force" build certainly requires less effort on the part of anyone attempting to port Felix to a new system--the build system pretty much handles all the discovery itself. -Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
