Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 12:32 +0100, Gour wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:13:00 +
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.
