Re: [Plplot-devel] Looks like autotools is beginning to get some competition in the free software space

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi all,

I already use scons for some of my (cross platform) projects, and also 
for wxplplot - some sort of plplot-"distribution" for the wxwidgets 
driver for windows (and linux/mac osx), which I didn't provide for the 
community since I'm not really there, where it should be (actually I did 
provide it (http://eaps4.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal/wxplplot/), but nobody 
knows, since I didn't announce it - Linux and Mac OSX don't work out of 
the box).

Anyway, I can provide my scons file (which for example checks if the gd 
and/or the freetype library is there) if someone is interested.

Apart from that, scons is very useful, and you can already use it as 
make-replacement without problems (e.g. it's used for the Linux build of 
Doom 3). It can e.g. also provide project files for Microsoft Visual 
C++, but in the moment only for 6.0 and it has some rough edges here and 
there. But it is still a pre-release and I hope the provide a newer 
version soon, since in cvs are already some nive enhancements included.

So, if someone is interested in the Sconscript file, you can download 
from the wxPLplot homepage, and I can also help with setting up.

Regards,
Werner

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> I was reading an LJ story (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8928) today
> on musical notation software, and I noticed two of the three reviewed tools
> were built with the SCons (http://www.scons.org/) build-management system.
> 
> It appears it is a python-based replacement for make (!), automake, and
> autoconf. It is licensed under the MIT license.  There was no mention of a
> libtool replacement, but obviously the project is building up expertise on
> various platforms (including windows) that may eventually give it that sort
> of cross-platform build capability.
> 
> It is nice to know that autotools is finally beginning to receive some
> competition in the free software space.  I doubt very much that we will 
> want
> to move the Unix part of PLplot (including Cygwin and MinGW) from autotools
> to SCons any time soon, if ever. However, Arjen, since you cannot use
> autotools for your (bare) windows builds, you might want to have a look at
> SCons to see whether it can help you with your PLplot configuration issues
> you have previously mentioned on that platform.
> 
> Alan
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