Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Bo> scons is much easier to install than autotools, and version >> Bo> compatibility of autotools can be a nightmare. >> >> Except that autotools (in unices at least) is already there and there >> is nothing to install. > > Even more so if you install scons-local: no need for autoconf, automake, > perl, m4, sh, etc... > As we already require python, it actually make sense to migrate to > scons, the pre-requisite to build and install LyX will be much lower on > all platform. > >> Bo> In summary, scons can almost replace autotools, but not now. >> >> Note that I am not saying that scons should not replace autotools. The >> main problem that I have with it actually is that it is not generally >> available on all unices and that I would be surprised if it worked out of >> the box on the nonlinux unices. The tweaks that will be necessary to >> make it work will remind us why autotools make sense :) > > My personal preference is CMake really because it integrate nicely and > natively in any platform. But our CMake system is far from ready.
I assume the cmake files are ok on all three systems for developing. But what is missing for the rest? - install support - better documentation ... If there is really interest I will start to add it. Maybe some could join my one-man-cmake-show because I haven't much time for the next months. Peter
