[Scons-dev] Problem using doc toolchain?

[Bill Deegan]

Dirk,

What would be the reason to put slots on 2.4 instead of default branch?
If needed we can always branch from 2.3.6 to make a 2.3 branch and patch
that.

-Bill

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hey Bill,
>
> On 31.07.2015 19:30, Bill Deegan wrote:
>
>> Did a clean python, libxml2-2.9.2, libxslt-1.28 from source (ran into an
>> issue with libpython.so from system python causing core
>> dump with got me stuck for a while because the error you get until you
>> dig into it just indicates that expat was not built with your
>> python.. blog posting to follow on that fun).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I get only the following diffs:
>> [...]
>>
>> Are these all valid?
>> Is there an easy way to check them (aka a tool?)
>>
>>
> I can only second what Gary said: these are all valid and expected
> changes. There used to be a special check script back in the old days of
> the previous doc toolchain, when there were *.in files and *.xml files for
> the final (=processed) version. But we're now directly working on the *.xml
> files, which is another advantage of the new setup in my opinion.
> That's also where all the stuff in "bin/SConsDoc.py" comes from, trying to
> get equal (or, at least similar) output for libxml2 vs lxml...in order to
> keep the diffs as small as possible.
> I'll work on the "normalization issue" in the background, for now we
> should stick to "libxml2 only" for official releases.
>
> Thanks for the great work on releasing 2.3.6, I'll latch on to directly
> create a branch for release 2.4 in the repo...and merge the "slots" diff to
> it. Once the changes get accepted by the users after 2.4 is out, we can
> safely merge this back to the "default" trunk. Does everybody agree?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Dirk
>
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