March 18, 2015
7:31 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
This doesn't seem to me to be a winner takes all proposition -- there is no reason someone couldn't set up a new build system for Python, get it all working nicely on their platform(s) of choice, persuade others how wonderful it is, get contributions, etc.
If it turns out to really be better/easier etc. than autoconf, then , and only then, would it make any sense to talk about replacing the existing official build system. And even then, the two could live in parallel for quite some time...
Both Blender and Wesnoth have SCons and CMake running in parallel for a long time. Both camps are just maintaining their own chains and it works well.