Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> You seem to ignore the fact that scons can easily generate VS.NET projects.
I'm not ignoring it - I'm not aware of it. And also, I don't quite
believe it until I see it.
> But there is no technical reason why it has to be so. I work on several
> portable projects, and they
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, was this ever discussed among Python developers?
>> Would something like scons qualify for this? OTOH, scons opens nasty
>> self-bootstrapping issues (being written itself in Python).
>
> No. The Windows build system must be integrated with Visual Studio
Giovanni Bajo wrote:
>>I'm sure Martin would be happy to consider a patch to make the build
>>system more efficient. :)
>
> Out of curiosity, was this ever discussed among Python developers? Would
> something like scons qualify for this? OTOH, scons opens nasty
> self-bootstrapping issues (being w
Michael Hoffman wrote:
>> FWIW, this just highlights how ineffecient your build system is.
>> Everything you currently do by hand could be automated, including
>> MSI generation.
>
> I'm sure Martin would be happy to consider a patch to make the build
> system more efficient. :)
Out of curiosity