Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Monday 21 February 2005 19:26 schrieb Mike Richardson:
> This leads to one of the advantages of SCons: because you have a "proper" 
> language you can reduce your dependence on commands.
> 
> For instance, I've just changed a bit of the Rekall build system that used 
> "sed" cos I wan't it to run under Windows (directly, not via Cygwin) and 
> "sed" isn't there. So I just recoded it to do the processing in python. Took 
> about 30minutes. Probably quick if I'd not had a beer beforehand:)
> 
One should not forget here, that you can call this python also from normal 
Makefiles - also to make it easier for kdevelop to figure what you want to do ;)

Greetings, Stephan