[Scons-dev] Cross-language support

[William Blevins]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> <Likely going off-topic…>
>
> On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 00:20 -0400, William Blevins wrote:
> > Thanks for responding everyone.  I just wanted a "heart beat" so to
> > speak,
>
> You could always play the start of Dark Side of the Moon ;-)
>
> > since I wasn't sure how many members were watching the devs list.
> >  I'm not
> > asking anyone to stop what they are doing, but a lot of what I have
> > left is
> > requirements related questions.
>
> Whilst I note every email, I mostly delete and move on due to not
> having enough time to properly contribute.
>
> > I will hopefully still be able to work on SCons after early
> > September, but
> > I am going to be a little disorganized during the move and culture
> > adjustment.  I will be overseas for a year getting my MSc in Great
> > Britain.
>
> Just to note that Great Britain is a geographic but not political
> entity, something the ISO committees handing out country codes chose to
> forget when trying to solve the UK/Ukraine problem.
>
> Where will you be studying and living when here?
>

University of Sussex in Brighton; approximately Sept 2015 - Sept 2016.


>
> > Also, I may not have my high-end workstation. I'm still debating
> > whether or
> > not I want to break it down and ship it.
>
> I guess this depends on cost. It always seems that countries shipping
> to UK pay about 0.5 or 0.3 the cost of shipping the same from the UK.
> Basically all companies (especially USA ones) charge far more in the UK
> for everything than they charge anywhere else in the world.
>

Cost plus risk of it getting damaged.  I generally build my own
workstations, so it's not like shipping X-U server form-factored machines.
I will have to dismantle it prior to shipping.  I'm tempted to ship it case
less and buy another one in Britain because it'll be cheaper than shipping
(probably).


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