-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of David Abrahams Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Release Tools Analysis Part I: Build systems
Well, with a great deal of due respect to Steven, he's wrong. Sure it /can/ be done in pure python, but /should/ it be? Before we had insane C++ template metaprograms, the cost of preprocessing and lexing typically swamped that of any other C/C++ compilation phase, just because they had to deal with more data (individual characters). And now we have insane preprocessor metaprograms, so things have not gotten any easier on the C/C++ preprocessor.
I don't think, the maintainers position does matter here. Scons has an interface (a so called 'scanner' interface) to add tools of your choice for generating the implicit dependenies. cheers, aa -- Andreas Ames | Programmer | Comergo GmbH | ames AT avaya DOT com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Stuttgart Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart - HRB 22107 Geschäftsführer: Andreas von Meyer zu Knonow, Udo Bühler, Thomas Kreikemeier