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Re: Oh no...
by The Badger on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @09:27
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"But these tools m4, libtool, autoconf, automake are existing for how many years now ?"
For so long that we're all born with inate knowledge of them?
"You can ask basicly everyone to help you with it, you can even go to the next chinese fish store to ask some linux guru to help you"
Dream on! Makefile and autotools gurus may be able to help you, but they're nowhere near as common as you make out. Even if the Internet is littered with autotools files, as you suggest elsewhere, that doesn't necessarily make troubleshooting any easier, as anyone with any experience of TeX authoring will tell you.
"while you probably won't find that many people helping you with Scons problems."
Sure, specific SCons experience is likely to be limited, but at least there's a chance that people will either get the language or get up to speed with it, rather than getting bogged down with the usual horseplay that shell-inspired toolsets entail.
"But then again, Scons isn't really my problem. Python is (as if I haven't said this two dozen times now)."
If only to contradict yourself in two dozen other places. But to distill this objection to Python down, it would appear that you see the installation of a tool you don't use as "wasteful" - in which case I imagine that you roll your own minimalistic Linux distribution in order to avoid all the other wasteful stuff that gets installed. Or don't tell me: you've said all this but actually run Fedora Core?! |
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