[Chicago] SCons

[Garrett Smith]

Thanks for the references! Paver looks very promising. Kevin Dangoor summarizes the problem well here http://www.blueskyonmars.com/projects/paver/foreword.html.


----- "Kumar McMillan" <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Garrett, I haven't used SCons but I looked at a bunch of similar tools
> briefly:
> http://farmdev.com/thoughts/46/the-python-make-tool/
> 
> It sounds like you might want something more like zc.buildout, maybe
> for http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.cmmi/ (thinking it might
> help to compile java?)
> 
> zc.buildout docs are a little hard to follow but it's kinda nice once
> you see how it works.
> 
> You may also want to look closely at Paver.
> 
> PS. don't use distutils.core ;)
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Garrett Smith <g at rrett.us.com>
> wrote:
> > Anyone have experience with SCons?
> >
> > http://www.scons.org/
> >
> > I'm in the market for something like ant, but without the
> hemmorrhaging
> > suckage. I realize that setuptools is the standard for most Python
> build
> > tasks, but I need something that's adept at compiling stuff like
> Java and
> > .NET.
> >
> > There's some interesting work in Ruby world (rake, rbuildr, etc.)
> but
> > nothing feels quiet simple enough.
> >
> > Garrett
> >
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