[Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation

[Samuele Pedroni]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
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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?
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> 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.
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in PyPy we explored at some point using SCons instead of abusing 
distutils for our building needs,
it seems to have a library part but a lot of its high-level dependency 
logic seems to be coded
in what is its main invocation script logic in a monolithic way and with 
a lot of global state.
We didn't feel like trying to untangle that or explore more.
> 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.
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> - -Barry
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