> > There are a lot of build system out there. This one seems cool and clean > but it's probably too bleeding edge. I suggest you to take a look at waf. > Lots of project are switching to it. > We've been through WAF already. Oh, what a nightmare it was!
WAF is very basic and doesn't have even gettext support, so you have to write that yourself in Python. As your project evolves, you need more and more custom handling because WAF is so very primitive and your build system ends up being a bunch of entirely custom Python scripts. Not only reimplementing the whole build system in Python for every project is pointlessly time-consuming, but it also means that you have as many build systems as there are project maintainers evolving in parallel with little to no code sharing. So each project has to go through the same pitfalls instead of just using collaboratively-written time-proven shared code. EWWWW. Oh, and custom WAF-based build system also means that distributors have no idea how to work with it. Each project requires entirely custom handling. So your project can't be packaged by an average maintainer because the distribution's helper scripts won't work with it. You need a guru who *wrote * the helper scripts just to package your project. So, been there, done that, not going to return. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff OS architect @ elementary
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