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SCons — build your software better
Posted on August 9th, 2011 by

A few years ago I worked on a large (60+ man-year) software project, involving C/C++ and Java. The software stack originated from demonstrator software, and its make files had become unmanageable, and even worse, unreliable. After evaluating a lot of options we rewrote the entire build system based around SCons.

A few weeks ago an ex-collaegue contacted me with some questions how we approached things back then. Today, while attending a children's birthday party a discussion on...