The main SCons distribution now includes D support!  Hurray and stuff.

<http://www.scons.org/>

(FYI, SCons is a Python-based build tool, much like GNU make)

 -- andy

Thanks!

"Andy Friesen" <Andy_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:c2oca2$be$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> The main SCons distribution now includes D support!  Hurray and stuff.
>
> <http://www.scons.org/>
>
> (FYI, SCons is a Python-based build tool, much like GNU make)
>
>  -- andy

In article <c2oca2$be$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Andy Friesen says...
>
>The main SCons distribution now includes D support!  Hurray and stuff.
>
><http://www.scons.org/>
>
>(FYI, SCons is a Python-based build tool, much like GNU make)

How fast is it?  Is it really slow versus GNU make?

Mark T schrieb:

> How fast is it?  Is it really slow versus GNU make? 
> 

I would believe it to be very fast, but it's better to test it. It should be faster than makedepends&make. The make files are in Python syntax.

I haven't tried it myself, but the Blender project has just switched onto it, since it makes automake/autoconf obsolete (at least for their purposes?) as well.

-eye

Mark T wrote:
> How fast is it?  Is it really slow versus GNU make? 

I find that it spends a second grinding away figuring out dependancies, but it's plenty fast enough after that.

I prefer it because I find it nicer to work with, not because it's faster.  (for instance, SCons doesn't need to be told how to do a 'make clean'.  It knows)

 -- andy

Mark T wrote:

> In article <c2oca2$be$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Andy Friesen says...
> 
>>The main SCons distribution now includes D support!  Hurray and stuff.
>>
>><http://www.scons.org/>
>>
>>(FYI, SCons is a Python-based build tool, much like GNU make)
> 
> 
> How fast is it?  Is it really slow versus GNU make? 

I find the problem with make isn't the amount of time it spends compiling your code, it's the time you spend making it compile your code.

Cheers,
Sigbjørn Lund Olsen