[Chandler-dev] SCons

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi guys,

I haven't mingled much with the list recently, busy I've been on  
another open source code base (opensl, the open source viewer for  
second life). Going through the pain of compiling on Windows over  
there (Mac was a breeze but Windows multiple paths to build had  
several dead ends...), I wanted to suggest this building tool some  
guys are using over there: SCons (http://scons.tigris.org/). It's  
really neat: think about make but all made in... Python... :) The  
resulting make files (called SConstruct) are much easier to  
understand and, likely, to maintain, using the readable Python syntax  
instead of the obscure make "language".

Considering that Python is already a dominant language over at OSAF  
and that maintaining the build system is always a pain, I thought you  
might be interested by this. Nothing urgent or even necessary, just  
an FYI.

Cheers,
- Philippe