Re: [Chicken-users] alternate build tools

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Thomas Chust wrote:

> of the suggested system I have only tried ant so far and I instantly  
> disliked it: It didn't run out of the box, although it is a Java 
> program,  it is a rather big package which makes it a heavy dependency 
> and in my  opinion it is very clumsy to handle, partly because of the 
> xml format of  the build control files.
>
> Of course that's only my personal opinion -- some Java programmers I 
> know  do like it. Apparently it integrates very nicely with Eclipse.

I looked into Ant and CC Task mainly because I'll soon be doing an Alias 
Maya project with Eclipse.  In the process I sorta forgot that these 
concerns are mostly irrelevant to Chicken.  I mean, just because I'll be 
using Eclipse and Schemeway doesn't mean other people will be.  Well I 
suppose if Ant was simple to use, and it worked, then nobody would 
complain.  But I've been leery of it myself because it doesn't sound 
simple to use.  Rather, it's politically correct if you're going to be 
working with the Eclipse developers.  They'll pay attention to it, and 
likely won't be interested in SCons or CMake.

For Chicken, I think CMake is the way to go.

Cheers,
Brandon J. Van Every
   (cruise (director (of SeaFunc)
           '(Seattle Functional Programmers)))
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