[Scons-users] Asciidoc sample chapter

[William Blevins]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 10:16 +0100, Saša Janiška wrote:
> > On Pon, 2016-01-11 at 09:29 +0100, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> >
> […]
> > > Isn't AsciiDoctor written in Ruby? If yes, this would add another
> > > dependency to our toolchain...which might be tolerable but it's
> > > certainly a point to discuss.
> >
> > Yes, original AsciiDoc is Python, while AsciiDoctor (mostly
> > compatible)
> > is Ruby, but with ~25x speedup.
>
> I have to pull in a whole mass of dependencies to get a DocBook/XML
> toolchain working, so I think a few extra dependencies to work with
> ASCIIDoc or ASCIIDoctor is hardly a big deal.
>
> For the GPars stuff I am using Gradle and the JRuby variant of
> ASCIIDoctor. Using the Gradle ASCIIDoctor plugin, I have to do nothing
> other than let Gradle download and install the toolchain. Generating
> PDF and HTML from ASCIIDoctor source really is very, very
> straightforward.
>
> In a sense, it is a pity that SCons is a Make replacement, rather than
> being like Maven and Gradle which manage external dependencies as well
> as the build of the local source  ;-)
>

Seems like a Builder could be created for doing a Maven-like external
dependency handler.


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