On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Using Python is not an advantage, it's an additional dependency. > >> On the other side, if i build a project for multiple UNIX platform, with >> different compiler, i prefer to use the autotools. > > Why? Because SCons is too limited? ;-) Try CMake. KDE is using it > successfully with at least g++ on multiple platforms (including OS X and > MinGW), Sun Studio on OpenSolaris and M$VC on Window$. > Not that I'm plugging this, but if you want a Python-based, but designed for embedding, build system, Waf (http://code.google.com/p/waf/) might be of interest. It generates a < 100k script that can be run on any system with Python installed (ok, still a problem with Windows, but installing another Unix build system on Windows is probably even more of a pain). Regards, -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora • salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MacPorts • hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list