Re: is there a make system which uses database instead of Makefiles?

[Noel Yap]

gk wrote:

> Thanks. I looked at SCons a couple of years ago and had forgotten about it.
> I believe it is completely file-based but it uses MD5 instead of 
> timestamps which might be ideal to tell if database input fields have 
> changed.
> In any case, python is clearly superior to the gnu makefile language and 
> the internals of SCons are also python.

I agree although I'll give that SCons has the benefit of youth :-)

I figured that, since SCons uses Python, it should be flexible enough to be 
able to access the database.  This is a complete guess on my part, though, 
since I've never even used SCons.