Re: Let's switch to Mercurial

[Andi Albrecht]

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anatoly techtonik <tech...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Andi Albrecht
> <albrec...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> (and maybe replace the Makefile by a fabfile to become more platform
>> independent)
>
> I was thinking about replacing it with SConstruct. =)

It seems that scons focusses on *building* things. Where do you see a
benefit in comparison to fabric?

-Andi

>
>>
>> Would be nice to have some comments from the Chromium branch guys
>> regarding this switch!
>
> That's true. They may be even more happy with switching to Git now
> that Google Code supports it.
> --
> anatoly t.

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Andi Albrecht
<albrec...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> [switching mailing lists]
> anatoly techtonik <tech...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Andi Albrecht
>> <albrec...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> (and maybe replace the Makefile by a fabfile to become more platform
>>> independent)
>>
>> I was thinking about replacing it with SConstruct. =)
>
> It seems that scons focusses on *building* things. Where do you see a
> benefit in comparison to fabric?

I don't know what a Fabric is, I don't know if it runs on Windows and
I don't know if it is as good cross-platform replacement for
Makefiles. But I know that SCons is and it's already installed on my
system. =)

Fabric looks like a tool for deployment over SSH. I am pretty fine
with uploading projects manually as long as I'm able to build them
(fetch dependencies, patch, run tests, etc.).
--
anatoly t.