Anatoly, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
I'm not saying that a "recipe book" wouldn't also be useful, but a reference to the system is always needed. -Bill On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:08 PM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:02 PM, William Deegan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anatoly, > > > > A manpage is supposed to be the definitive list of all the API’s. > > Now explain that to every Windows user. ) > > > If you think you can do anything substantive with a system based on a > > cursory read of some short documentation, I believe you are mistaken. > > Oh that ancient and dark Unix world. People learn games by playing or > by cursory reading of some short documentation. I believe you are not > right. I don't try to persuade me that build system and a game are not > related pieces of software. https://xkcd.com/303/ > > There are two things that I value in SCons: > 1. simplicity, which is usability + intuitiveness > 2. portability > > Expressive man pages doesn't add to any of those. > -- > anatoly t. >
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