Re: [Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

2012-10-25 Thread William Deegan
All, On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Oct 25, 2012, at 15:07 , "Managan, Rob" wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> Thanks for the info. Sounds like I should have the Install function check >> that the version numbers match. In the use case where Install does not >> know what the v

Re: [Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

2012-10-25 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Oct 25, 2012, at 15:07 , "Managan, Rob" wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for the info. Sounds like I should have the Install function check > that the version numbers match. In the use case where Install does not > know what the version number is then I will believe the one in the library > name

Re: [Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

2012-10-25 Thread Managan, Rob
Hi Chris, Thanks for the info. Sounds like I should have the Install function check that the version numbers match. In the use case where Install does not know what the version number is then I will believe the one in the library name! Of course, in the example from Eric Raymond on OSX there is o

Re: [Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

2012-10-25 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Oct 25, 2012, at 14:42 , "Managan, Rob" wrote: > Bill and Dirk, > > I think I tend to agree with Bill that Install should not surprise the user. > For ease of finding the functionality I will look at adding > InstallVersionedLibrary so it naturally sorts along with Install and > InstallAs.

Re: [Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

2012-10-25 Thread Managan, Rob
Bill and Dirk, I think I tend to agree with Bill that Install should not surprise the user. For ease of finding the functionality I will look at adding InstallVersionedLibrary so it naturally sorts along with Install and InstallAs. I suppose I can try to make it smart enough to figure out if th

Re: [Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

2012-10-25 Thread William Deegan
Rob, On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Dirk Bächle wrote: > Hi Rob, > > just had a quick look at your changes...thanks a lot for taking care of this > issue. > > On 25.10.2012 06:09, Managan, Rob wrote: >> I want to get some input on this issue. I created a fork for this at >> https://bitbucket.o

Re: [Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

2012-10-25 Thread Dirk Bächle
Hi Rob, just had a quick look at your changes...thanks a lot for taking care of this issue. On 25.10.2012 06:09, Managan, Rob wrote: I want to get some input on this issue. I created a fork for this at https://bitbucket.org/managan/scons_soname and put Eric Raymond's code into Environment.

[Scons-dev] detect vs. where_is

2012-10-25 Thread Managan, Rob
Since I am guilty of building tests by copying from existing ones I suppose I should ask this question. Is there a good reason why tests tend to use test.where_is('my program') instead of test.detect('my program') ??? I ask since where_is uses the os.environ path and detect uses the path set up