> I bring this up because I recently (like - today) spent about 8 hours > trying to debug a Python installation problem - and realizing that much > of the reason that installation and deployment infrastructure of Python > programs is so ****ing complex is because of the poverty of tools like > Make. > > Right now, the top competitors for Make are (as far as I know): > > -- pljam: Nice system, but effectively unmaintained > -- SCons: again, nice system, but doesn't scale, performance is > unacceptable for large projects. > -- ant / nant: Heavy requirement on Java / .Net
I've heard CMake is quite nice. It has been chosen by KDE as the default build tool. It generates Makefiles on Unix and MSVC project files under Windows, which makes it an integrated replacement rather than a complete ad-hoc solution like ant & friends. I don't know if it's practical for non C/C++ projects though. http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html Oh and I've just found out this one, which promises to be superior to anything else (of course ;-)): http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/bksys.html _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
