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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: scons
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2005-02-12 1:15:52
Message-ID: 200502120115.52184.ben () meyerhome ! net
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On Friday 11 February 2005 4:14 pm, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> I got the chance to finally play with scons recently and found it to be
> quite nice.  The biggest features I see as an app developer are
>
> 1) Proper dependency list
> 2) No more admin directory :)
> 3) The equivalent of ccache built in.
>
> #1 and #3 makes builds much faster :)
>
> Overall it seemed like a perfect fit for my personal qt/kde projects  qmake
> didn't offer the ability to "configure" and with the auto*, the tarball for
> small projects with only a few classes were still well over a MB
> compressed.
>
> I was curious what other developers thought of scons.
>
> And along those lines (and to provoke discusion) what developers think
> about auto* for KDE4.  Are their any thoughts of having
> scons/unsermake/[insert other here] replace it?
>
> -Benjamin Meyer

Oh, for those who want to play around I have been using bksys (collection of 
templates for kde and scons)

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=19243

Another nice thing is that scon can be used on Windows without cygwin.  
Getting windows developers to play with KDE will be easier if they don't need 
cygwin.

-Benjamin Meyer

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