CMake or SCONS?

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Mon Jan 30 12:01:10 GMT 2006


On Monday 30 January 2006 06:44, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Dave Feustel wrote:
> >Some tme ago I read in one of the KDE mailing lists that KDE 4 would use
> >SCONS as its build tool. Has CMake replaced SCONS? If not, what are
> >the two tools being used for in KDE?
> 
> We did choose scons in aKademy, back in Málaga. So that's the build tool 
> that we want.
> 
> However, progress wasn't going fast enough, for many reasons out of our 
> control. And we didn't manage to enlist scons developers help so far. In 
> the meantime, we've got some eager people working on cmake and its 
> developers' are actually helping. So it's no harm to let them work.
> 
> In the end, the work that actually gets done prevails.
Thiago,
Thanks for the update.
I'm looking forward to the release of KDE4.
Dave Feustel
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