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Re:Autotools Mythbuster by riffraff on Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:14AM (#10751890)
there _is_ a huge amount of smart folks who worked or works on build systems. Sadly, it seems everyone is 80% better than the others in something and 20% lacking in something else.

For example, the SCons wiki has some interesting comparisons.

https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTool...

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Re:Autotools Mythbuster by wyldfire on Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:42AM (#10752086)
I really liked SCons, but it seems like it never really hit critical mass.

Ubiquity is important for a build tool.

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