Atul Varma posted to the ChiPy list that his company uses a tool called SCons. It claims to be the “next generation build tool” and a cross-platform, Python-based, replacement for make with autoconf functionality.

Quoth Atul:

So far everyone at work is in love with this package; constructing our build system is now as much fun as coding in Python now because, well, SCons lets us use Python to create our build system instead of a clunky shell-scripting mutant language (Make) or any of the alternatives we’ve seen so far, like Ant.

I don’t think I personally have a use for it, but it sounds like it could be interesting if you are a real software developer.

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