On Mar 29, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Aahz wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2005, Adam MacBeth wrote: >> >> Has anyone ever considered using SCons to build Python? SCons is a >> great build tool written in Python that provides some Autoconf-like >> functionality (http://www.scons.org). It seems like this type of >> self-hosting would be a great testament to the power of Python as well >> as helping to reinforce the strength of SCons as a next generation >> build tool. > > Unfortunately, this leads to a bootstrapping problem. :-( It might be > worthwhile investigating moving parts of CPython's build process to > SCons, but core Python needs to stick with make. If you want to push > this idea forward, you'll probably need to create a proof-of-concept. I think it would also be important for SCons to gain more traction amongst the Python community before it filters into the core. All of the Python extensions I use, and the ones I write myself, are built using distutils. I'm not really fond of distutils, but last I looked at SCons it didn't seem like a big enough win for mostly-Python-projects.. The fact that it uses 1.5.2-isms, where distutils has (in theory) moved beyond that, makes it even less of a sell to me. -bob
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