Op zondag 04-01-2009 om 00:39 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef John Mandereau:
> I'm afraid it is too late to resurrect SCons, or too early if you > prefer. Yes, quite possibly. SCons has been the new great promising end all solution for Make for a few years too many, maybe. Having said that, past summer had a grand gsoc project to add autoconf/automake compatibility, which can be used to drop much custom hacked-up stuff from the lilypond SConstruct. > I remember a number of packages used a so-called revolutionary > program named SCons, I no longer encounter it. Maybe it's superior to > stepmake system, but we recently consolidated the makefiles enough (e.g. > support for -j make flag, cleaning up documentation compilation) so that > we can concentrate on other problems. Yes, and that's valuable too. SCons is still making progress, possibly in a few years time... > I will include this removal in the patch that splits stuff in > buildscripts. Ok. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
