Re: [AG-TECH] Access Grid 3.0 beta1 available !

["Thomas D. Uram" <turam@mcs.anl.gov>]

I always feel like distutils is too targeted at modules, and that customizing 
it to do
what we want would be a lot of customization, not all that different from where we
are now (actually, distutils is used quite a bit in the current build process).

I'll take a look at scons, since it looks like it targets the level we need.

Thanks for the tips,

Tom




On 1/31/06 11:09 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:52 -0600, Thomas D. Uram wrote:
> > I'd be very happy to replace it with something standard.  Whatever it is,
> > it'd need to encompass the following:
> >
> > - python module installation
> > - executable scripts in standard platform-specific locations
> > - platform-specific installer creation
> > - others I'm not thinking of at the moment...
> >
> > What do you suggest?
> Two things spring to mind: Distutils (aka setup.py) and scons ...
>
> Scons is basically 'make' in Python but can be used for non-python
> projects (Blender uses it for instance).  I supports hierarchical builds
> and a separate build configuration file.
>
> Distutils is the standard python-specific build/packaging system.  It
> can be used with py2exe and InnoSetup (or other installers) to create a
> packaged windows system.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve