[x264-devel] SCons support for x264

[Tomas Carnecky]

On Apr 19, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Shachar Sharon 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.
>
> SCons is cross-platform -- you may have the same build system for both
> unices & win.
>
> Please note that I am not a SCons developer, and I have no special
> interest in promoting this tool. I simply wish to help x264
> developers.

You explained what Scons is, but you failed to show which advantage it  
would give the x264 project to switch to Scons. It's nice that Scons  
can be extended and all, but does x264 really need any of its  
features? Did you came across a situation (when compiling x264) that  
make couldn't handle?

tom