2009/9/14 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:
SCons looks much nicer to me. It allows you to use the full power of Python for build scripts, but I have not used it much yet.
I have the same feeling, but unfortunately also the same lack of experience. I only used SCons for a small project recently, but it looked and felt very easy to use and quite powerful. The use of Python is a big plus IMHO, and I believe it would be quite suitable for our purposes. FWIW, the free music typesetter Lilypond [1] is currently also looking for an alternative to automake (but their requirements are a lot more advanced than ours). In the discussion, someone pointed out SCons's slowness as a big disadvantage and suggested to look at waf instead. [2][3] But as I said, I have almost no experience with SCons and none with waf, so I cannot really judge the statements and it would be interesting to hear other people's opinions and experiences.
Max
[1] http://www.lilypond.org [2] http://code.google.com/p/waf/ [3] See this email: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-09/msg00169.html