Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Monday 14 February 2005 23:30, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > I looked at SConscript you've posted and I'm a bit scaried now.
>
> I also had a look at it and then I remembered why I didn't like it. It
> feels like writing a program which compiles my program instead of declaring
> some facts in order to have another tool compile my program.
I think it's much better too use a widely spread language like python for 
writing the makefiles than some special dialect, like cmake provides, it 
might look more complex, but learning the python basics isn't as hard as 
remembering again just another unusual language.

Like Coolo said, Makefile.am are most times borked after developer try even 
the most trivial changes, as they (like me on each second commit ;) just miss 
some part of the semantics. Python or every other scripting language would 
lower this barrier I guess.

cu
Christoph

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Christoph Cullmann
KDE Developer, kde.org Maintainance Team
http://www.babylon2k.de, cullmann at kde.org
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