>>>>> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> And you clearly showed that you had no patience. Bo> I heard that French people have >130 days of paid leave? Lars is not french, you know. And some french people have families and choose to spend their week-ends with them. And yes, I have > 130 days of paid leave :) >> It is not basic building I worry about. It is things like >> distcheck, gettext, pch, warnings, stdlib-debug, install, stage-dir >> etc. etc. that I worry about. Bo> These will be added on a one by one basis. The advantage of scons Bo> is that (almost) anyone can read SConstruct and add the feature he Bo> wants. I *will not* add every single feature that autotools have Bo> now. But you will eventually? The idea of reimplementing the m4 code I wrote in python because you prefer python to autoconf does not appeal to me a lot. Bo> No. I have no intention, as of now, to replace autotools with Bo> scons. All I need is a quicker and more flexible method to build Bo> lyx for my own lyx coding. I have shown some advantages of scons Bo> over autotools under linux, and Abdel will surely show you more Bo> gains under windows. That is currently enough for us. Is there hope to avoid requiring installing SCons before compiling LyX from tar.gz? The python requirement itself is pretty much OK, since we use it elsewhere. JMarc
