Re: [Scons-dev] Extensions to the Tool subsystem...

2012-12-28 Thread Evan Driscoll
On 12/20/2012 12:09 PM, William Deegan wrote: On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Managan, Rob manag...@llnl.gov wrote: My question is where does Scons stand these days on the issue of paths and not using the whole user environment by default? From my perspective NOT propagating the users

Re: [Scons-dev] Extensions to the Tool subsystem...

2012-12-28 Thread William Deegan
Evan, You make some good points. As I see it, there are 3 types of SCOns users: 1) open source building software for the world, should build in many different environments 2) Hobbyist/individual - Should build on my machine. don't care about any other 3) Commercial - It should build on all the

[Scons-dev] Extensions to the Tool subsystem...

2012-12-20 Thread Dirk Bächle
Hello developers, based on my proposed changes to the current tests in src/test there has been some discussion about how a Tool should work. Especially in connection with the LaTeX Tool, questions like: - Do we want to have one latex Tool for all, or separate ones for miktex, texlive...?

Re: [Scons-dev] Extensions to the Tool subsystem...

2012-12-20 Thread Managan, Rob
I wanted to weigh in with a path related issue that came up in the LaTeX tools. My question is where does Scons stand these days on the issue of paths and not using the whole user environment by default? For Macs, the Latex tools were rarely on the default paths that Scons searched and therefore

Re: [Scons-dev] Extensions to the Tool subsystem...

2012-12-20 Thread William Deegan
Greetings, On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Managan, Rob manag...@llnl.gov wrote: I wanted to weigh in with a path related issue that came up in the LaTeX tools. My question is where does Scons stand these days on the issue of paths and not using the whole user environment by default? From