A friend recently introduced me to some good stuff.
Scons and
DesktopManager . First chance I get to rework the build processes of my thesis project, I'm going to take Scons out for a test drive. I've found Autoconf/Automake disappointing in many ways. Most notably it is nearly impossible to get the thing to build "base" classes once when there are multiple targets. WTF? I wondered why my build times were so big, then I noticed my base classes where getting compiled 8 times - once for each target. :( I must say, there probably is a way to control this behavior - but who is going to figure it out. Autoconf/Automake is much much harder than it needs to be. Scons looks as simple as it should be.
If I had access to a spare windows machine - or a working Linux box at home I would be using DesktopManager now. Very nice.
Always bringing the good stuff.
