Russel,
Russel Winder-4 wrote: > > I think the fact that it is not being developed further is probably very > telling of the amount of use C and C++ build gets in Ant. Personally I > would prefer to write a Ant task wrapper for SCons and use SCons' > massive infrastructure for C and C++ builds rather than further develop > a new or maintain an old Ant task > and then what if you want to build on windows? it means installing python, scons (i'm not sure how good it is in running on windows). and what about the difference in operating systems that require using a different set of compilers/linker for each (and different way of passing flags)? also, this wrapper may need to translate a lot of standard properties from the gradle file to the scons file (e.g., version numbers) i think the reason that C/C++ is not used in ant is mainly because there's no good support for it. after modifying cpptask for a project i was doing, i can tell you it is written very badly (in my point of view of course), i think it is not maintained because it simply was not fun to develop anymore for the original author. i don't see a reason why c/c++ projects will not benefit from a tool like gradle (if you're using python+scons, why not use groovy+gradle?), especially because of the superior support for dependency management. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can-gradle-build-C-libraries-and-RPM-distributions--tp17071528p17490345.html Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
