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Does anyone here use scons (http://www.scons.org http://www.scons.org)?

• ajross 18y ago
  SCons is fine for working with builtin rules. It's kind of a mess for writing elaborate custom rules, for the same reason that python is a poor command line tool integration language when compared with the shell (of which make is, essentially, a superset). The same is true for cmake, or the GNU autotools, or ant, etc... I happen to like make. It's true that as a programming language it's pretty weak. And it doesn't do anything for the "C portability" problems that the other tools try (with varying degrees of success) to solve. But as a way to wrap a bunch of short shell scripts together with some dependency management in an easy to maintain way, it's better than anything else I've seen.