Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, >> But what about Python? If I was trying to build a system from >> scratch with >> the same goals as cmake (as far as I understand that from the >> reading that I >> have done about it), there is no way on earth I would've started off >> by >> defining a new language. Especially not a quirky, byzantine >> language. Isn't >> Python on every platform that cmake is on? Wouldn't it make a lot >> more sense >> to have used a "real language", with great data structures, and >> libraries, >> and a module system, and all that? > > Introducing scons: http://www.scons.org/ - more or less the same aims > then cmake, but all in Python. But at the time when we changed the > build system, it just wasn't up to the task. I tried it for one of my > bigger projects and failed, since it didn't get the basic things right > - e.g. project files for Visual C++. And in my opinion the whole > structure to configure things was not well "developed". Although the > project was quite "big", it didn't depend on many 3rd party libraries, > but the configure files where quite big. And I had to configure things > for every operating system I used - this is much better done by cmake.
I'm also a Python fan, and I also struggle with CMake, but my impression is that the last line of the comparison with CMake section at the link below captures the current situation pretty well: "To sum up, my very subjective opinion is that scons is a better idea, but CMake has a stronger implementation " http://www.scons.org/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools#head-3d0faf3f1d4d3b73f31eaa0ba97d4df18a474369 -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
