[Scons-users] Question about scons

[William Blevins]

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On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Guillaume,
>
> thanks a lot for the positive feedback! Good to hear that you're obviously
> happy with SCons.
>
> On 09.02.2016 17:10, Guillaume Anciaux wrote:
>
>> Dear Scons developers and users,
>>
>> I am new to the topic, and find it great that the Python language is the
>> support of a build tool.
>>
>> However, I used to manage a large project with CMake and was ready to
>> change from the crappy language that CMake is.
>>
>> However something that is extremely nice is the database of
>> 'find_package' routines that helps in finding default software.
>>
>> I searched a little but found no such thing for Scons ? am I right ?
>>
>>
> Yes, there is currently no repo or collection of tools, specialising in
> the task of finding external programs and libraries (such as Boost, for
> example) and configuring the build environment.
> We have basic support for "pkg-config", parsing the returned flags and
> adding them to variables like CXXFLAGS or LIBS.
>
> If so, is it a naive though to:
>>
>> - start such a repo ?
>>
>
> If you'd like to start such a repo, just go right ahead I'd say. Such a
> contribution would be more than welcome! If this direction proves to be
> fruitful, we should think about ways how to integrate these "custom
> contributions" into the SCons distribution.
>

Should we point to the new contrib repo?
https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons-contrib


> My ideal approach would be to have the current "core sources" as the basic
> distro that has to be installed.
> On top of that, users can then decide to install a "contrib"
> package/distro, which blends in with the "core" package such that the user
> can call the provided add-ons right away (and doesn't have to mess around
> with search paths and such).
> Just an idea though...


>
> - write an exporter from the CMake format to benefit from the long list
>> of packages already supported ?
>>
>
> I already started a CMake to SCons converter, you might want to check it
> out at:
>
>   https://bitbucket.org/dirkbaechle/cmake2scons
>
> , there is still a lot of functionality missing...but it may be better
> than starting from scratch. Your pull requests are welcome! ;)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dirk
>
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