Re: [jamboost] Re: [scons-devel] SCons BOF at O'Reilly OSCon 2003

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-17 11:14:11

[2003-06-17] David Abrahams wrote:

>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> Perhaps at this point, since it is far of, and I think other design
changes
>> are on the table...
>>
>> Would using some other scripting language be an option? Like Lua which
has a
>> very low embedding cost.
>
>I'd much rather be using Python since I know that Scons is
>thoughtfully designed and implemented. I don't want to repeat the
>work they've done.

OK. Question though, how easy is it to create those prebuilt binaries that
got mentioned earlier?

>> Could we rewrite the parts of Jam that are usefull, like the dependency
>> engine, in C++ and use them in library form?
>
>That very thing is one that I'm most anxious to replace with the
>Scons work!

OK, bad example on my part ;-) Are there parts of Jam, and which ones, that
would be usefull?

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