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From: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
To: Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] Add SCons build files.
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My bad.  I totally misread your introduction.

* Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> [091122 11:46]:
> The SCons build files are not meant to require emacs.  If I've messed
> something up and emacs is somehow required I would consider that a bug
> and would try to fix it.
> 
> As far as availability, I'm sure that SCons is one yum or apt-get or
> <insert other package management system command> away.   The only
> people that would face more than a minor inconvenience are people that
> prefer to download tarballs and compile and install things themselves.
> 
> Yes, I'm sure that make is widely available, but as notmuch gets used
> on a wider variety of systems some sort of configuration system will
> become necessary.  If I can prevent another project from going down
> the autoconf/automake path I'll be happy.  I started creating CMake
> build files but I don't know CMake well enough to come up with a
> working build.
> 
> On 11/22/09, Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> wrote:
> > * Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> [091122 08:47]:
> >> The SCons build files included here *should* do everything that the
> >> current Makefiles do, plus a little bit of configuration checking.  To
> >> build/install:
> >
> > Wouldn't that have the unfortunate side effect of making notmuch
> > unusable w/o emacs and scons installed?
> >
> > GNU make has a much wider install base, and notmuch is still very useful
> > without emacs.
> >
> > -Bart
> >
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