Re: [Scons-dev] Pleased to announce we've added Dirk Bächle as a comitter to the core scons repo

2014-07-29 Thread anatoly techtonik
Gratz, Dirk! =) On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Bill Deegan b...@baddogconsulting.com wrote: Greetings, Gary I are please to announce we've added another user to the commit list for the core scons repo. Dirk Bächle has been a long time participant in the SCons project both in adding

Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

2014-07-29 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Kenny, Jason L jason.l.ke...@intel.com wrote: Anatoly, What is your take on the CCopy behavior in Parts. I believe this addresses the issue you are concern over. The logic be default is to do a hard-soft-copy which is to say make a hard link, else symlink,

Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

2014-07-29 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:39 AM, William Blevins wblevins...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is reasonable for SCons to support symlinks on systems that support symlinks. It is not the matter of supporting, it is the matter of using them by default. You need to check FS support - not operating

Re: [Scons-dev] Pleased to announce we've added Dirk Bächle as a comitter to the core scons repo

2014-07-29 Thread Dirk Bächle
On 29.07.2014 03:30, Manuel wrote: Cool that's great news!! El jul 28, 2014 9:46 PM, Kenny, Jason L jason.l.ke...@intel.com mailto:jason.l.ke...@intel.com escribió: Second that! *From:*Scons-dev [mailto:scons-dev-boun...@scons.org mailto:scons-dev-boun...@scons.org] *On Behalf

Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

2014-07-29 Thread Kenny, Jason L
So your suggestion is that I update the license file with Scons Foundation? Jason -Original Message- From: Scons-dev [mailto:scons-dev-boun...@scons.org] On Behalf Of anatoly techtonik Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 12:21 PM To: SCons developer list Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink

Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

2014-07-29 Thread William Blevins
I can't foresee any situation where global switch will be useful, but it may be worthy to set one. I hope our goal is to to have intelligent and fast build system, not the one creeping with options. So if we can make automatic defaults that work fast thanks to symlinks where this is

Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

2014-07-29 Thread William Deegan
William, Yes that is used for VariantDir’s.. There’s also an argument to such: BuildDir(build_dir, src_dir, [duplicate]) , env.BuildDir(build_dir, src_dir, [duplicate]) Deprecated synonyms for VariantDir and env.VariantDir(). The build_dir argument becomes the variant_dir argument of 

Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

2014-07-29 Thread William Blevins
2. Get Mercurial and run tests in VM hg clone http://selenic.com/hg cd hg/contrib/vagrant vagrant up vagrant ssh -c ./run-tests.sh Vagrant mounts current folder as /vagrant inside VM, so when I cd to this folder and try to create symlink, I get a nasty error:

[Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Deegan
Can someone who understands latex and these tests take a look at the failures on buildbot? http://buildbot.scons.org:8010/builders/fedora7-python-2.7/builds/126/steps/shell/logs/stdio test/TEX/biber_biblatex.py test/TEX/biber_biblatex2.py test/TEX/biblatex.py