On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 19:11 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote: > Greetings, > > SCons has always been (as much as possible) a batteries include tool. > For me personally, and also from many questions on the mailing list and > IRC, having mainstream tools not in the core confuses users. I consider QT > to be a mainstream tool..
I wonder if we should challenge this "batteries included" approach by providing a very lightweight packaging of tools and things using DVCS (Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Fossil, Darcs, etc.) > I'd suggest the following: > 1) deprecate qt, rename it qt3 > 2) integrate qt4 and qt5 into the core. > > Thoughts? I know I'm disagreeing with others, hopefully this isn't just > bike sheding (Please call me on it if it is). Given that qt is already included, I vote for this solution, in this case. I'd hate to see it used as a generalized answer in the future though, since that would miss the opportunity for decentralization. > That said, I think it would be a great idea to add non-mainstream tools as > python packages distributed via pypi which would install into the core or > in such a way that the core would find them. PyPI is a great Python resource, assuming it is up. It suffers by being a central resource rather than a distributed resource. If a tool is a package then it is already distributable as a SCons tool. -- 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
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