[C++-sig] Re: Building/testing extensions: boost-python-runtest

[Niall Douglas]

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On 10 Sep 2004 at 12:13, David Abrahams wrote:

> G> Scons scripts are python, and scons itself is also python.
> >
> > Imagine how easy life is if you have make, but written in python, so
> > you can easily access it's internals or change any aspect from the
> > makefile (not that you would typically need to).
> >
> > scons src itself is actually quite small, as well.
> 
> I like the idea of Scons and have been following its development
> since before it started ;-).  I am also interested in the idea of
> replacing the Boost.Build core with Scons.  I'm asking these questions
> because I want to be sure that Boost.Build itself is still providing
> important advantages.

Have you considered writing a parser in python which translates jam 
files into scons operations? This way you get the best of both 
worlds. scons can also be used as a library rather than just 
standalone - just import it and go.

Cheers,
Niall





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