On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:46:08 +0500, Alex Besogonov
On the Boost.Build list we were just discussing the fact that some people otherwise inclined towards Boost have chosen Scons over Boost.Build. It would be useful for us to understand some of the reasons why, if some of you wouldn't mind letting us know. No flames, please!
Well, SCons supports distributed building and binary repositories - that's a MAJOR selling point. And Python is much nicer than jamfiles.
PS: there's also mxx_ru (http://eao197.narod.ru/mxx_ru/) it's a build system based on Ruby - it has some interesting features worth attention. Unfortunately, its documentation is only in Russian, but this should not be a problem for Vladimir Prus :)
Another Python-based build system I like a lot is A-A-P (http://www.a-a-p.org). I haven't played much with SCons, but judging from the SCons documentation, A-A-P is a lot more powerful. I've found A-A-P to be indispensable for my builds, as well as other things like web page publishing. -- Be seeing you.