Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Josef Spillner]

Am Montag, 14. Februar 2005 23:18 schrieb Alexander Dymo:
> I looked at SConscript you've posted and I'm a bit scaried now.
> That file looks as difficult to parse and modify by an IDE as the old
> Makefile.am's. God, how I miss the buildsystem that would use
> xml files or smth similar that is easy to parse and modify ;)

Given that the code is a programming language rather than a configuration 
language as used in usual makefiles, wouldn't it make more sense to embed the 
python code to extract this information?
I'd be scared by having to write an extra parser, if maybe scons is easily 
embeddable.

Josef