In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:40:42 +0200, "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
nyh> I didn't comment on scons because I never heard of it, or saw any nyh> free software using it. http://www.scons.org/refer.php (and I haven't added my own projects yet, because they're still to be released). nyh> Does using SCons require the end-user (who does the installation) nyh> to install both Python and SCons, or are these tools only nyh> necessary for the developers? If the installer requires Python nyh> and SCons, isn't this a problem for portability? I think the SCons modules (it's basically just a bunch of python modules and a couple of wrapper python scripts) themselves can be built in to the project, but python needs to be installed. However, considering the spread of python, I'm not sure it's that much of a problem, and it poses less portability problems than sh, the sh builtins and common Unix utilities and make. Python is ported to many platforms (including VMS, which I view as a proof of portability). Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
