[Scons-dev] 2.2.0 soon?

[Russel Winder]

Is this something that needs some planning and action so that it doesn't
fall through the cracks?

On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:34 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>:

> > I agree about the importance of getting this in, but would like to

> > push 2.2 out first.  Two reasons: 1, I think your patch will need some

> > real-world testing in checkpoint releases for a while before we get it

> > all right on all platforms, and I'd like to not hold 2.2 for that.

> 

> That is reasonable.  I think this should be the top-priority new feature

> for 2.3, though.  I believe the lack of it has been slowing down scons

> adoption a *lot*.

> 

> > And 2, the work needed to integrate it is more than I can do in a few

> > hours: it needs tests and doc (I think both user guide and man page)

> > at least.

> > 

> > Have you created a Tigris ticket for it, with your patch?

> 

> I have not, because I don't have anything I consider a final patch.

> I never had a patch to scons itself; what I had was code that created

> a pseudo-builtin in my recipe file.

> 

> The reason I have not pursued this is because, as I said in my last

> email, I now think having a separate versioned-shared-library builtin

> may not be the right thing.  The profusion of builtins in scons is

> bewildering and something of a problem; wouldn't it be better to have

> SharedLibrary take a version argument and do the right thing?

> 

> This goal makes a larger problem of the fact that I don't know your code

> and I don't know your test frameworks.  It's probably about three

> hours' work to fold this feature into SharedLibrary starting from my

> code for someone who already knows your code, but I'd have to spend a

> couple of days learning my way in first.  Sorry, but that just seems

> like an inefficient and silly way to do things - and I'm swamped with

> work on three other projects.

> 

> Would someobody more on the inside take the lead on this, please?

> I'm willing to help live-test the results and write documentation.


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