On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this something that needs some planning and action so that it doesn't > fall through the cracks?
Yes, for sure. I don't have time right now to investigate it further, but if someone could at least file a Tigris ticket for it that would be a good start. Any further actual work would of course also be welcome :-) -- Gary > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:34 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >> Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]>: >> > I agree about the importance of getting this in, but would like to >> > push 2.2 out first. Two reasons: 1, I think your patch will need some >> > real-world testing in checkpoint releases for a while before we get it >> > all right on all platforms, and I'd like to not hold 2.2 for that. >> >> That is reasonable. I think this should be the top-priority new feature >> for 2.3, though. I believe the lack of it has been slowing down scons >> adoption a *lot*. >> >> > And 2, the work needed to integrate it is more than I can do in a few >> > hours: it needs tests and doc (I think both user guide and man page) >> > at least. >> > >> > Have you created a Tigris ticket for it, with your patch? >> >> I have not, because I don't have anything I consider a final patch. >> I never had a patch to scons itself; what I had was code that created >> a pseudo-builtin in my recipe file. >> >> The reason I have not pursued this is because, as I said in my last >> email, I now think having a separate versioned-shared-library builtin >> may not be the right thing. The profusion of builtins in scons is >> bewildering and something of a problem; wouldn't it be better to have >> SharedLibrary take a version argument and do the right thing? >> >> This goal makes a larger problem of the fact that I don't know your code >> and I don't know your test frameworks. It's probably about three >> hours' work to fold this feature into SharedLibrary starting from my >> code for someone who already knows your code, but I'd have to spend a >> couple of days learning my way in first. Sorry, but that just seems >> like an inefficient and silly way to do things - and I'm swamped with >> work on three other projects. >> >> Would someobody more on the inside take the lead on this, please? >> I'm willing to help live-test the results and write documentation. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev > -- Gary _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
