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Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2012–2020), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Build files become cryptic and very hard to debugUnreviewed
20122026- Writing non-trivial build files becomes cryptic and impossible to debug2020-09-19
- Hard to follow build code flow and find bugs2019-06-09
- Missing build essentials forces users to reinvent large parts of the build system2016-08-26
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Writing non-trivial build files becomes cryptic and impossible to debug2020-09-19
- Cross-platform builds are harder than they should be in practice2019-06-10
- Packagers must add boilerplate and patches so SCons honors CC, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS2019-06-09
- Adding a header file requires learning the SCons API to tell it what to do2019-06-09
- Hard to follow build code flow and find bugs2019-06-09
- Never worked with the IDEs the commenter likes, such as QtCreator2017-02-08
- Missing build essentials forces users to reinvent large parts of the build system2016-08-26
- Python-based build system was slow, buggy and hard to maintain2015-09-01
- Hard to find where things are done and how to change behaviour2012-11-14