

I use Scons for most of my Fortran projects, because it understands Fortran 90 dependencies, and have used it for a C++ project. If you already know Python, you don’t have to learn yet another underpowered, obscure scripting dialect. You can do anything in a SConstruct file that you can do in Python.

It has a whole range of cool functionality:
Scons is a very powerful build system - an improved ‘make’ - written in Python. Better to think hard before pulling this stunt.
#Monolingual for mac software
A word of warning about this: I managed to hose my Software Development Kits (SDKs) by doing this, and had to reinstall Xcode. You can also remove files for particular chip architectures for example, you could remove all PPC files from your Intel laptop.
#Monolingual for mac free
Perhaps surprisingly, this can free up several gigabytes of disk space. You select the languages you want to keep. Monolingual scans your system, and removes languages that you don’t need from the system and applications. It skyrocketed the performance of my old laptop. In contrast to GrandPerspective, you won’t need to run Monolingual very often. Last year I upgraded from a HDD to SSD on my 5 year old macbook pro. It sounds simple, but it is a very effective way to immediately see what is eating up your file system, whether it be a couple of enormous QuickTime movies, or hundreds of smaller files like your iPhoto library. By mousing over the blocks, you can see what files they represent. The size of the blocks is proportional to the size of the files, and similar files are grouped together and given the same color. It scans a directory on your hard disk, and displays the files as different colored blocks. GrandPerspective is a simple idea that works very well in practice. The last one is for filling up disk space with object files: Scons. Two of the tools I use when I want to free up disk space: GrandPerspective and Monolingual. They are not scientific tools per se, but I find them very useful in my day-to-day operations, and I’m sure others will too. Two of the tools I use when I want to free up disk space: GrandPerspective and Monolingual. There are a few free tools that I want to plug.
