-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Seefeld Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Release Tools Analysis Part I: Build systems
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.
I beg to differ. It just makes simple things easy, and complicated things possible. You often have to integrate (possibly self-written) tools into your build process that are considerably less complicated than C compilers. Just think of the thousands of version generators used out there. -- 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