[Scons-users] Scala-Support

[Kussmaul, Paul]

Thanks for your response and your hints. I have already tried SBT. It is ok for small projects. But up to now is still unclear how to organize large applications which should be split into several projects. SBT is a magic-box, you don't know what it is doing internally. And because of that it is NOT simple to use, especially if your project-archetype needs some extensions. And sometimes SBT shows very strange recursions inside the project-directory. Not so easy to understand.

How can I reach Greg Ward? May be he has some additional hints for me.

Paul

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From: scons-users-bounces at scons.org [mailto:scons-users-bounces at scons.org] On Behalf Of Russel Winder
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 18:50
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Subject: Re: [Scons-users] Scala-Support

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 06:28 +0000, Kussmaul, Paul wrote:

> SCons is very interesting building-system and Scala is a very 

> interesting programming-language. Both together would be a dream for 

> software-developers. Are there any plans to support Scala? Building 

> should be very similar to Java. Any ideas?


SCons support for Java is a bit of a "curate's egg", For trivial Java projects, SCons is fine, but then so is Gradle, Maven or even Ant and Make. However for anything even a bit tricky SCons has a problem, it's model of how to manage build products is at odds with the way that the Java compilers work. My experience of SCala is that the processes are directly analogous.  At various times this has been raised as an issue but I have never managed to get myself in a position to be able to focus on it.  Currently Greg Ward is having a go at improving what there is, and is I believe having some success.

A question: The Scala community generally believes there is one and only one build tool for Scala and that is SBT, is this not a direction for you? I am yet to be convinced by SBT, but I need to look at 0.12 in case I need to change my view.

I am not sure what support Maven or Ant (though for me Ant is no longer a viable build framework) have, but Gradle has excellent support for Scala. Gradle is also pushing the "can we build C++ with Gradle", so there is now a bit of competition to SCons in the Java/Scala/JNI/C++ build stakes – which is where SCons did have a USP. 

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