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Re: SCons support in LilyPond
From: |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
Subject: |
Re: SCons support in LilyPond |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:27:26 +0100 |
Op zondag 04-01-2009 om 00:39 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef John
Mandereau:
> I'm afraid it is too late to resurrect SCons, or too early if you
> prefer.
Yes, quite possibly. SCons has been the new great promising
end all solution for Make for a few years too many, maybe.
Having said that, past summer had a grand gsoc project to
add autoconf/automake compatibility, which can be used to
drop much custom hacked-up stuff from the lilypond SConstruct.
> I remember a number of packages used a so-called revolutionary
> program named SCons, I no longer encounter it. Maybe it's superior to
> stepmake system, but we recently consolidated the makefiles enough (e.g.
> support for -j make flag, cleaning up documentation compilation) so that
> we can concentrate on other problems.
Yes, and that's valuable too. SCons is still making progress, possibly
in a few years time...
> I will include this removal in the patch that splits stuff in
> buildscripts.
Ok.
Jan.
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