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Build Systems: Make vs. SCons

In the process of recent work on an upcoming project, I decided that I wanted a build system that would do things that GNU Make either doesn’t do or at least doesn’t do readily. Doing a bit of investigation, I discovered that there really aren’t a whole lot of options out there. In fact, the four major systems I found were:

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litesql Review

I’ve been working a bit with litesql the past few days, so I thought I’d review it.

litesql is an object persistence library that uses sqlite as it’s storage backend (although it now also supports MySQL and PostgreSQL). There are two separate components to the system, the library which handles the actual storage mechanism, and the code generator which takes as input an XML specification of your data objects and generates the appropriate C++ classes.

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