I'm still here -- just working 24/7 at my day job -- soon I"ll be back to
SConsing....  I think it's important that bootstrap.py be useful to run
scons directly out of its repo checkout.  I use it like that.  Haven't been
following the discussion closely but breaking that would not make me happy.


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 10:40 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> […]
> > This seems to work well for you, so stick to it.
>
> :-)
>
> […]
> > This appears to work well for me (it has other advantages), so I'll
> > stick to it. ;)
>
> :-))
>
> > The role of bootstrap.py is probably defined quite well, so I don't see
> > a need to discuss it at the moment. All I wanted to offer is the simple
> > scripts that I use to start SCons directly, such that we could replace
> > the misleading instructions in the REAME.rst by a pointer to the files.
> > Fixing the text, as Rob suggested, would be another option of course.
>
> Sadly we cannot ignore the fact that the behaviour of bootstrap.py has
> recently changed and is now broken for those who used it as a bootstrap
> to use SCons from their repository checkout.
>
> We need to revert the change or apply one of the known fixes. Currently
> there is no action, just talk :-(
>
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