I have had only negative experiences with SCons, mainly due to the fact that it seems that you need to deeply understand the SCons internals to do even trivial tasks beyond the basics. However, if you want to produce a SConscript for Thrift, we would be happy to include it in contrib.
--David Bruce Simpson wrote: > Hi all, > > We recently cut over to SCons, from GNU Autotools, in the XORP tree, > which is now public again: > http://xorp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xorp/trunk/xorp/ > > So far this has been a win for us -- it is now much easier for us to > deploy new components in the tree, and maintenance is easier too, > assuming developers are Python-literate. > > I wanted to ask if there is interest in SConsifying the Thrift tree, and > if anyone has already been working on this? It is likely I will need to > hack Thrift significantly to do the following: > * integrate Rush Manbert's excellent ASIO work; > * streamline the client/server stubs, and separate those which are > generated for C++; > * introduce support for fully async client-side invocation, with or > without futures (which XORP needs). > > Please let me know -- I'd like to start work on this as soon as > possible, and would like to avoid duplicating existing effort. > > thanks, > BMS > >
