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From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-15 12:11:01


On 09/14/2005 06:56 AM, rwgk wrote:
[snip]
> - Since I am quite happy with SCons it would take something vastly
> better to motivate me to switch. The syntax would have to be at least
> as nice and powerful as Python.

>From my *brief* look at:

http://www.scons.org/doc/HTML/scons-user/c2029.html

it appears that scons requires the user to decide to separate
the different variant buids into different directories, and
the directory names also have to be specified by the user.
In constrast, bjam does this for the programmer, IIUC.

 


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