Here's my ideas about what projects are important this year (and into the
future -- there's too much here for a year unless we attract some new
developers). I put this out as food for thought, and to start discussion
-- I'm sure you will have different opinions, things I haven't thought
about. Please chime in!
SCons projects for 2013
- Toolchain revamp
- Goals
- Toolchain specs with AND/OR/error
- Easy install of external tools
- Decouple standard tools from core
- Allow tools to take args (version, arch, ...) w/o polluting env
- Issues
- Users need to be able to set up tool chains before SConstruct
- Users need to be able to set toolchains for default env
- Need reliable exists() method
- Don't modify env['PATH'], allow specific path-setting per tool
- but make that debuggable
- Can we make it back-compatible?
- Node cleanup
- Speed
- Memory
- Extensibility
- Separate concerns
- Filesystem
- Dependency info
- Signatures
- Subst logic
- Arrays, strings
- Predictability
- Orthogonality
- Compatibility
- Taskmaster
- not most important in 2013
- Python 3
- Compatibility
- Options
- 2.7+3?
- python3 version
- ?
- How did the ML vote come out?
--
Gary
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