On Friday, August 24, 2012 10:32:46 AM UTC-4, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:17 AM, qheaden <qhea...@phaseshiftsoftware.com> > wrote: > > > Is there any special reason why an existing build system such as SCcons > > couldn't be used as a new build system for Mozilla? I know the Mozilla > > source has a lot of special build instructions, but SCons does allow you to > > create your own special builders in Python code. > > > > Build systems like SCons are just a different coat of paint over make. > > They wouldn't really solve any of our problems, it'd just be > > busy-work. In addition, SCons (among other build systems) tries to > > solve more problems than we need, by providing the features of > > autoconf as well as make. Finally, for SCons in particular, I have > > doubts about its ability to scale to a project of Mozilla's size. KDE > > tried to switch to SCons and failed, and wound up using CMake. > > > > In short, most build systems suck at large scale. Almost any will > > suffice for a small project, but for a project of Mozilla's size > > there's no perfect solution. > > > > -Ted
Yes, I guess you are right about that. A custom, simplified build system would be the best choice in this situation. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
