Dan~ Just a few small questions about scons to clarify...
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:16:24 -0400, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever we use is fine as long as: > > a) We can edit the dependency file without having to know the > language the tool's written in I believe that scons will be able to automatically determine dependencies for most of what we do and what little we don't can be specified with little enough syntax that actual knowledge of the syntax is irrelevant. > b) the tool can be convinced to scan the entire tree at startup and > build a rebuild script that doesn't need the tool itself it can be told to output what commands it would issue (to stdout) but not issue them. This output could be captured into a shell script of some such. > c) It's a language we can guarantee we've got available (which means > either C or a language that compiles to parrot bytecode) It is entirely in Python, thus while we do not yet have it compiling down to Parrot, conceptually it could... I realize that none of those were questions, so here is the question. Given those answers to your requirements, would such a build system likely be accepted or would I be wasting effort? Matt -- "Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory." -???
