Ames, Andreas (Andreas) wrote:
FWIW, I think one of the most obviously lacking parts of scons compared to Boost.Build is the lack of 'features', i.e. tool independent (command line) option descriptors. (IMHO, the build file language, i.e. python -><- 'bjam-script', outweighs this disadvantage. Just consider the ease of adding a new build tool to scons, for example.)
I would phrase it differently: SCons lacks a robust structure in its definition of 'tools' (there is no intermediate language to define features in a tool-independent way), making it rather hard to maintain and develop. That this lack of structure makes it seemingly easy to add new tools is a side-effect of that deficiency. But we are getting off-topic. This belongs more and more on the scons developer's list... Regards, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...