[Monotone-devel] Re: package_full_revision.txt and derived files

[graydon hoare]

Jon Bright wrote:

> Very few Windows users have Python.  For people with decent package 
> management, getting scons (and its dependencies) is probably pretty 
> easy.  Unless it's really necessary, though, I think it's probably an 
> unwise choice for Monotone, as it makes building of Montone more 
> difficult on systems *without* good package management (like Windows).

well, I am somewhat torn over this issue, but I think your argument here 
is not terribly strong. monotone is already difficult to build on 
windows, and I think much of that difficulty stems from the inability to 
use msvc, the "normal" toolchain windows users would want to use. I 
would say that installing msys+mingw is more work, on windows, than 
installing python.

scons does, in its favour, know how to use msvc.

I have in fact, many months ago, converted some of monotone's build to 
scons. it worked well in some respects, less-well in others. in 
particular, I had to rewrite a lot of configury, and I still wound up 
with something that didn't know how to do "make distcheck", and which 
the rpm and debian package systems didn't know how to configure and build.

-graydon