Russel, I had to google a bunch of things below.
Basically, if I understand correctly, your question is should SCons support downloading and building packages (registered or not with some central repo) for various languages? Is that the gist? -Bill On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The current D support in SCons is really there to support mixed D and > C++ software rather than being the best way of handling solely D codes. > Also SCons focuses on the build case where all the source is in the > project and all dependencies are available natively on the platform. > > Like Rust, and Go, and indeed C++ now with Conan, D has the concept of > getting packages from a central repository. Rust has Cargo which is a > package and build manager, no need for SCons. Go has the go command for > getting Git/Mercurial/Bazaar packages and building things, no need for > SCons. D has Dub which like Rust's Cargi is a package management and > build system. Scons is really a C and C++ system (*), with support for > Fortran and D in polyglot systems. Conan must change the game: SCons > must support Conan. > > In some sense Dub removes the need for SCons with D programming. Yet > people are using SCons and Meson for building D. > > For SCons to remain relevant to D, and there is good reasons to do > this, it must be able to interwork with Dub to handle getting > dependencies from the Dub repository. I am currently "fighting" with > trying to make SCons build D codes with Unit-Threaded test framework > use. I have to admit I am beginning to wonder why. :-( > > Which leads to a second issue. D, like Chapel, is beginning to focus on > compiling all source at once into a target. None of this compile each > module/file/… separately and then link. Meson cannot cope with this > from what I can see, which make me wonder if this new replacement for > Autotools has built in obsolescence. > > Chapel and D can both be build file/module by file/module, but > optimisation works best on all source at once mode. The Chapel folk are > looking at a Cargo style build system, D has Dub. Is it worth pursuing > this model in SCons, or is it a waste of effort to try? > > > > (*) And obviously XeLaTex, which is now my main use of SCons. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================ > ================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev > >
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