[Scons-dev] In the "breaking news" section…

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 20:07 -0500, William Blevins wrote:
> If it wasn't for JNI support, I would have proposed the combination of
> Java/Jar in SCons a long time ago.  I still want to try and redo the build
> tool, but it at this point, it may be better to introduce a separate
> standalone builder than mess with the current toolchain. The performance
> loss in the extra build times is really trivial compared to the complexity
> reduction of dependencies.

I agree, if we could treat .jar files as the only filestore based target
and ignore individual .class files things could be made much more
SCons-y. As it is, I think Gradle is taking the whole JVM build market,
especially now that it is the default for Android and it has C++ build
capability.

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