Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Bo> scons is much easier to install than autotools, and version
Bo> compatibility of autotools can be a nightmare.
Except that autotools (in unices at least) is already there and there
is nothing to install.
Even more so if you install scons-local: no need for autoconf, automake,
perl, m4, sh, etc...
As we already require python, it actually make sense to migrate to
scons, the pre-requisite to build and install LyX will be much lower on
all platform.
Bo> In summary, scons can almost replace autotools, but not now.
Note that I am not saying that scons should not replace autotools. The
main problem that I have with it actually is that it is not generally
available on all unices and that I would be surprised if it worked out of
the box on the nonlinux unices. The tweaks that will be necessary to
make it work will remind us why autotools make sense :)
My personal preference is CMake really because it integrate nicely and
natively in any platform. But our CMake system is far from ready.
Abdel.
