re: Winelib and SCons

[Dan Kegel]

> Then, the developer needs to write his own makefiles and hammer autoconf
> and stuff into working right.  This is the hard part, and it's where I
> gave up when trying to port Miranda Instant Messenger with Winelib even
> though it worked in MinGW.  There are many other open source Windows
> apps out there that I'd like to try porting (say, eMule), but they're
> currently all written in Visual Studio and getting Visual Studio support
> into Winelib has been on our perpetual todo list for some years now.

I doubt SCons will help here in any substantial way.
Its chief appeal seems to be to people who like using
python for everything, and who like badmouthing make.
- Dan