30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
1:49 a.m.
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 20:55, Adam MacBeth wrote:
Has anyone ever considered using SCons to build Python? SCons is a great build tool written in Python that provides some Autoconf-like functionality (http://www.scons.org). It seems like this type of self-hosting would be a great testament to the power of Python as well as helping to reinforce the strength of SCons as a next generation build tool.
SCons is cool and all -- I use it as a build tool for some of our products -- but it has a lot of quirks and takes a lot of getting used to. The autoconf-based build that we have now works well enough (for *nix) so IMO, switching to SCons is effort that would be better spent elsewhere. I don't see lots of upside to switching. -Barry