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["Jérôme M. Berger"]

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Georg Wrede wrote:
 <half jokingly>
> Young people tend to always choose the absolutely best, while older
> people value stability and longevity of tools.
> 
> So, yesterday the best was SCons, today it's AAP, what's it gonna be
> tomorrow? Old people prefer something like make, that's been around for
> some time, and which will still be around in the future.
> </>
> 
> Yes, it's not /the/ best. But then one doesn't have to learn a new
> system every six months just "to keep with the best".

	In a way you're right, but:
 - I had been looking for a way around the limitations of make for a
while before I found SCons. In particular:
	- No easy way to make cross-platform Makefiles;
	- No easy way to track dependencies automatically;
	- No easy way to point at a folder and say "take everything in this
folder, compile it, and link it into an executable named foo";
	- File date is a poor way to decide that a file must be rebuilt, if
you go back to an archived older version of the file make will miss it;
	- No way to use multi-core / multi-CPUs systems (the -j option is
broken).

	Now that I found SCons, I look at the others mostly to satisfy my
curiosity. I'm certainly not trying to "keep with the best". But
then, I believe everyone here is curious about new things and
software or we wouldn't be looking at D would we? ;)

		Jerome
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