[Scons-users] Why SCons is not slow

[William Blevins]

I found the link I was looking for...

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Saša Janiška <gour at atmarama.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> after some delay (few years), I'm again in the position to start working
> on my project (multi-platform & open-source desktop app) and although
> some "modern" languages (Go,Julia, Nim, Rust..." have evolved in the
> meantime, after some re-evaluation, my conclusion is that Python+PyQt is
> still the best combination productivity-wise with the prospect of
> achieving decent performance.
>
> Due to having need to bind 3rd party C library, building docs etc. I
> checked what is the status of SCons...watched very nice presentation by
> Dirk titled "Why SCons is not slow" and wonder whether one can consider
> that there are no more performance issues when using SCons, especially
> when not having (extra)large project?
>
> Another well-established build system is CMake, but involves learning a
> new language while SCons seems to be more logical for Python+PyQt
> project, but I'm interested how does SCons compare with it when one
> consider multi-platform builds?
>

https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools


>
> I use Debian (Sid) as native development platform, but would like to
> provide packages for Windows/Mac OS. Afaict, SCons can build project
> files for VS/Xcode, but is there any plan to provide something like
> CMake's CPack to help with preparing installers/bundles and/or how do
> SCons users handle those issues?
>
> Another point is Python-3 port...I plan to use Python-3 and PyQt-5.x and
> according to 2.4.1 release notes it's last 2.x-only relase, so wonder
> what is the plan in regard to (2.5.x) release with Python-3 support?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
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