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I'm bad at marketing - I know.. :)

You can use Hamster to:
	- generate SCons scripts on the fly
	- generate Makefiles on the fly
	- just Do it All (no dependencies)

The mishap is mostly due to versions, I will need to check that the latest on LuaForge has the stand-alone features.

I should be using Hamster myself, but I am not. My conception has become, Makefiles with Lua scripts "baked in" can be very, very versatile as such. But had I any larger scale project needing a build system (and a dislike to Python?) I'd give Hamster a go. It is 'ready', has no known severe bugs, and out for grabs.

This is the end of Open Source projects; they become "ready" and still no-one uses them. That's life. :)

-asko

...with a somewhat I-haa kind-of attitude

http://games.disneysblast.com/winnie_the_pooh_games/ eeyore_shadow_catcher.html


Zed A. Shaw kirjoitti 14.10.2006 kello 6.47:

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Uh, last time I used Hamster (last month) it was a thin translator from a Scons-like-lua to the Scons-actual-Python, which is entirely not what it's advertised as. From the project description (and what you said above) it seems like an entirely standalone Lua SCons replacement. In actuality it's an SCons Python generator for people addicted to Lua.

Basically, what's the point of a Lua build tool if all it does is have the exact same API as SCons and still requires SCons and Python? I'd rather just use SCons.

Hopefully I got this all wrong and there actually is a Hamster which doesn't need SCons or Python (since, the one I have still needs SCons and then still needs Python).

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