1 Topic by aliem (edited by aliem 2008-01-23 15:58:01)

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Topic: a questions about bam

Hi,
I'm new here and i really like the game, I just whan't to ask you the reasons about your choice of to create a new build system.

I'm just curious :) ...  there are so many build systems around

2 Reply by matricks

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Re: a questions about bam

Bam is something I've created long before Teewars. For starters, I hate make. The good alternatives are scons and jam. Jam is pretty much obsolete and not developed, there are spin-offs of it however. Scons is really cool and easy to work with but its very very very slow.

I developed bam because I wanted a fast scons. So I wrote it with speed in mind. Wrote the core in C and used Lua for build scripts instead of python because Lua fits well and is very fast.

Bam is not complete and I do work on it from time to time. There are several buddies of mine that uses it for their projects as well.

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Re: a questions about bam

thank you for your fast response smile