Is scons the preferred build system nowadays? None of the people in Denmark use it.
Do they use cmake? Or do they use window at all? Windows people are now using cmake because of its msvc advantage, but I am using scons under linux, for cygwin package maintenance and will fix things if mingw/msvc support breaks. For any of these windows environments, autotools can not compete. Anyway, I am a bit disappointed with scons now because of its slow progress. New features are not released even if it has been in svn for quite a while, and critical problems are not addressed in time. There are good news such as a core developer is newly hired by vmware to lead a team to develop scons, but the result will take months to be seen. Keeping three building tools around may not be the best thing but we do not have a better choice now. scons' vc support and performance may be worse than cmake but maintainability, reliability and portability may be better. At least in theory, scons (now) should not have the full-recompile problem Abdel had with cmake a few days ago. So, the current situation is not that bad, and time will make the choice for us later. Have a nice vacation, people in Denmark. Bo
