Barry Warsaw wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Martin> In any case, the patch being contributed uses SCons. If >> people >> Martin> think this is unmaintainable, this is a reason to >> reject the >> Martin> patch. >> >> Could SCons replace distutils? >> > > I'm not so sure. I love SCons, but it has some unpythonic aspects to > it, which (IMO) make sense as a standalone build tool, but not so > much as a standard library module. I'd probably want to see some of > those things improved if we were to use it to replace distutils. > > in PyPy we explored at some point using SCons instead of abusing distutils for our building needs, it seems to have a library part but a lot of its high-level dependency logic seems to be coded in what is its main invocation script logic in a monolithic way and with a lot of global state. We didn't feel like trying to untangle that or explore more. > There does seem to be overlap between the two tools though, and it > might make for an interesting sprint/project to find and refactor the > commonality. > > - -Barry > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) > > iQCVAwUBRVObXHEjvBPtnXfVAQIhQQP/esS6o+7NX/JenJcuEdvb7rWIVxRgzVEh > rfZGSOO2mp6b0PgrvXjAnZQHYJFpQO5JXpWJVqLBPxbucbBwvWaA0+tgTrpnBpj9 > Cs/vwlMsmk55CwSYjvl7eM0uW9aIuT9QcZxuf4j+T7dzQOL0LL2Id4/876Azcfo0 > 7A0dtc2oJ+U= > =H1w2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/pedronis%40strakt.com >
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