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When comparing Fabricate vs SCons, the Slant community recommends Fabricate for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source build systems for C/C++?” Fabricate is ranked 14th while SCons is ranked 20th.
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Pros
Pro Can run tasks in parallel
Pro Avoids any step doing nothing
Detects input/output file changes and if input files didn't change, doesn't run the command again.
Pro Easy to script
Fabricate uses Python as a scripting language. Being a fully usable language and an easy one at that, makes Fabricate rather easy to script.
Pro Automatic dependency analysis for C, C++ and Fortran
Pro Powerful scripting capabilities
Uses Python as a scripting language.
Cons
Con Not maintained
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