[Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:15 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

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>     Martin> In any case, the patch being contributed uses SCons. If  
> people
>     Martin> think this is unmaintainable, this is a reason to  
> reject the
>     Martin> patch.
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> Could SCons replace distutils?

I'm not so sure.  I love SCons, but it has some unpythonic aspects to  
it, which (IMO) make sense as a standalone build tool, but not so  
much as a standard library module.  I'd probably want to see some of  
those things improved if we were to use it to replace distutils.

There does seem to be overlap between the two tools though, and it  
might make for an interesting sprint/project to find and refactor the  
commonality.

- -Barry

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