Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: news and survey

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:49:30 +0100, "Julio M. 
Merino Vidal" <address@hidden> said:

jmmv84> I personally wouldn't like to need scons, specially because it
jmmv84> needs Python.

A good thing with Python is that it exists for more platforms than
sh.  Perl would be another option.

jmmv84> FWIW, I started my own build tool, called Buildtool, aimed to
jmmv84> replace the auto* tools.  But I used shell scripting;
jmmv84> unfortunately, it's now unmaintenable.  (I hope to be able to
jmmv84> rewrite it in the not-so-far future, when I "finish" another
jmmv84> project I'm working on.)  But well, not that it may be
jmmv84> considered ATM ;)

I'm looking for a good auto* replacement that can run on OpenVMS as
well.  You you build one or have any other ideas than Scons, please
share with me.

Cheers,
Richard

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