Hi Anatoly, On 18.02.2014 05:46, anatoly techtonik wrote:
Why SCons bootstrap became dependent on external libraries? I find it a major usability regression. Can this be fixed?
it didn't suddenly become dependent, it always was. We're now using DocBook, so we need to process and transform XML...that's the single dependency to either libxml2 or lxml. And it's not a dependency for the regular user, but the role of the developer...
Before that we required the full list of required tools as given at the bottom of http://www.scons.org/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Documentation . If you'd switch to another tool like e.g. Sphinx, as you suggested under http://www.scons.org/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Documentation/Discussion, then that would be the new dependency. It's just switching names, so I don't see how this is any better...
So, - the external dependencies have actually been reduced, and - no, I don't think it can't be "fixed". ;) Best regards, Dirk _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list Scons-dev@scons.org http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
