bksys / scons (Re: win32 port)

[Harri Porten]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Brad King wrote:

> When implemented as a C program and not a shell script the overhead is
> very small.  The resulting program is tiny and then uses exec to replace
> itself with the full application executable (which could sit in a lib
> directory or somewhere else not in the PATH).

For software our company produces we use the same approach with quite some
success. Only problems we had were on Windows were exec and friends behave
slightly different.

Harri.