dsss / scons

[Bill Baxter]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
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> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Anyone given any thought to building a dsss-like system on top of SCONS?
>>  Maybe even one compatible with the real dsss?  Maybe even mr. Gregor
>> Richards has considered this?
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>> Just a thought that popped in my head after watching my app's resources
>> get needlessly compiled for the umpteenth time because of the lack of
>> dependency tracking for anything but D code in DSSS.
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> 	I have "thought about it" recently, but I haven't actually done
> much for it. What I have however is a system built on top of SCons
> which you can point at a folder and say (among other things): "pick
> every D source file in here and build a program / a lib with them".
> I can make it available if you'd like.

How is that different from the built-in D builder in SCons?  Honest 
question.  I've never tried to build D code with SCons before, so I 
really don't know what the current state of the art is.  If your code is 
better, maybe it should go upstream to be included with SCons itself.

--bb