Re: Any known examples of using intltool with SCons?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 16:18 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 10:51 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> > > had i noticed or seen the original email, i would have pointed out that
> > > Ardour (http://ardour.org/) uses both intltool and SCons. i did have to
> > > write some new SCons functions, but it was fairly easy (its python!) and
> > > anyone can use them now.
> 
> Thanks for posting this pointer, it is really great to see a real
> example of a GTK build with SCons.
> 
> Unfortunately, it has, for me, re-emphasized that SCons is missing the
> higher-level superstructure to make describing builds such as this easy
> and simple.  I am a fan of build systems using a programming language
> (e.g. Gant, SCons, Waf, Rant, etc.) but it remains the case that
> Autotools has most of the required superstructure already and it is not
> really appearing for SCons quickly enough.  Waf is perhaps further along
> than SCons. 

i would point out that we used to use autotools. our build system
imploded in an appalling and endlessly frustrating serious of problems
when people building it from source didn't have the exact same versions
of every part of the autotools change. it was also extremely hard to
express certain elements of the build process with autotools.

i would agree that SCons doesn't really operate at the same level as
autotools, and i still hope that perhaps Waf might fill this void. but i
will never, ever, ever consider doing a project with autotools again.
its developers appear to have no consideration for forward or back
compatibility, and when distro after distro is using different revisions
of these tools, a distributed development model by people using
different platforms with autotools (i.e. not just a generated configure
script) is beyond my patience to manage.

--p