[x264-devel] SCons support for x264

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Shachar Sharon <ssnail at gmail.com> wrote:
> SCons is written in Python, has a user-friendly syntax, and may be
> easily extended. Its main advantage is in simplicity and in the
> ability to add custom operations. It also have a very good
> auto-dependency detection mechanism.

That doesn't sound particularly useful given that x264 has practically
no dependencies.

> SCons is cross-platform -- you may have the same build system for both
> unices & win.

You mean like we already do?

The current build system is a bit hackneyed with regard to obscure
platforms that almost nobody uses, but a new build system alongside
the current one is surely not a solution, since the existing build
system would still have to support everything for
backwards-compatibility anyways.

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