On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 15:06, Josh Wilmes wrote:
> It seems to me that we should look at cons before writing Yet Another Perl
> Build System. (i haven't used it myself, so I don;'t know if it's good
> or not). For reference: http://www.dsmit.com/cons/
I like Cons, but I don't think it's appropriate for this particular
product.
Reasons In a NutShell:
- multiplatform support is lacking. It has decent out of box support
for "generic UNIX" and "Windows", but expanding that looks funky.
- difficult to set options for specific commands.
- no parallel support
- development team is working on scons, a from scratch implementation
in python. (Development on perl cons has slowed down a lot.)
- 3000 lines of perl code in one file. (Yes, uses objects and multiple
packages, thank god.)
- It's weird to write Consfiles.
Not that I don't like Cons - I just don't think it's right for our
needs.
-R (building a buildsystem at work)
