On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:15:54PM -0800, Christian Seberino wrote: > Does this compliment or compete with the distutils tools that have been > reborn as the Eggs/setuptools project?
SCons somewhat compliments it but is more or less orthogonal. > OTOH, Scons may be useful for C language projects to avoid Makefiles forever. Yup. SCons is advertised as a "make" replacement along with some autoconf stuff thrown in. The bonus is it's written using Python, hence the build scripts are Python scripts, which is a much nicer language to program in than "make". Good thing I never looked at "cons", the Perl version. Given how unreadable Perl code can become, my guess is I would have quickly gone back to Makefiles. I'm playing around with SCons on a small project right now. It seems to be working pretty well. Then again, I'm not exercising it much yet. Right now it's generating native platform binaries. Pretty soon I plan on trying to setup up a cross-compiler build environment. Most likely it'll just be a matter of invoking a different Environment(). Anyway, I digress... -Jon -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
