[Scons-dev] This morning's WTF moment

[Dirk Bächle]

Anatoly,

On 06.09.2014 14:41, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>   [...]
> I am afraid you're the only one who knows what you're doing. =) If you
> could paste a reference to this specific wiki location, I could change
> my mind, but so far I am definitely not in the list of people who are
> able to track this progress.
>
> And to better understand my position, the **actionable** thing is the
> one that can be solved by anyone, i.e. by majority of people. To make
> this rule practical - by majority of people in this list. So it is not that I
> doubt in your abilities to solve it, it is that I doubt in my abilities to
> give it a proper review.
since you're mentioning it yourself, Gary is not the only developer who 
is able to review this properly. There are also Bill, Russel and 
myself...that makes four core devs in total, which I regard to be the 
current majority.

I understand that this topic is important to you and you really want to 
contribute. But you're also saying yourself that you have trouble to get 
the big picture, when a lot of text is involved. The toolchain redesign 
is a complex problem, and I don't see a chance to always break things 
down into tiny pieces that are easy enough to chew on, while staying to 
the point and laying out the foundations for the actual implementation.

So, if you have the "MSVC init" problem as a user case that you don't 
want to be missed, please add it to the Wiki page. If you can think of 
more cases where you expect issues arising, add them as well. This will 
help a lot during the design phase, and is probably the best way for you 
to make a valuable addition.

Regards,

Dirk