[Scons-dev] Getting started with the SCons code base~

[Dirk Bächle]

William,
On 12.07.2014 16:43, William Blevins wrote:
> So I am looking to pick up issue 
> http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2395 and have questions.
>
> I'm looking at scons/src/engine/SCons/Tool/install.py .  There is a 
> patched copy of shutil.copytree from python 2.5 so that scons could 
> support legacy python versions that I intend to remove and I am 
> unfamiliar with the repo branches.  I assume that this point any 
> changes I make need to go into the python 2.7+ build.  Can you point 
> me to the right branch?
>
just work on the current "tip" revision of the default branch. Please 
regard the directions at http://scons.org/wiki/SconsMercurialWorkflows 
and don't use named branches.

> Also, I'm more of a GIT user so I apologize in advance for patches 
> request that I cannot figure out how to rebase correctly.
>
This is probably not needed now, your changes won't take that long...so 
the merge should be trivial in the end. If you should get the hang of 
Mercurial, you might want to have a look at the MQ extension for 
handling patches...that's how I, personally, keep things organized 
before the actual commits.

Dirk