Russel Winder wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 12:32 +0100, Gour wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:13:00 +0000 >> Russel Winder <rus...@russel.org.uk> wrote: >> >> > SCons, Waf, and Gradle are currently the tools of choice. >> >> Gradle is (mostly) for Java-based projects, afaict? > > It is the case that there are two more or less distinct domains of build > -- JVM-oriented, and everything else. There is though nothing stopping > a single build system from trying to be more universal. Sadly every > attempt to date has failed for one reason or another (not necessarily > technical). > > Basically there seems to be a positive feedback loop in action keeping > the two domains separate: basically the tools from one domain don't > work well on the opposite domain and so no-one uses them there, so no > evolution happens to improve things. > > In this particular case, Gradle has great support for everything > JVM-related and no real support for C, C++, Fortran, etc. All attempts > to raise the profile of the Ant C/C++ compilation tasks, which Gradle > could use trivially, have come to nothing. >
Do you have an opinion for the .NET world? I'm currently just using MSBuild, but know just enough to get it working. It sucks.