[Scons-dev] Cross-language support

Tue Jul 28 11:53:55 EDT 2015

Just as a side note though, the only builds that this *should* rebuild are
builds with more complete dependencies, so I'm not sure if it would affect
the average user.

V/R,
William

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:15 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> SCons can now find cross-language dependencies, so it is possible that the
> number of children will change.  This will indeed force a rebuild.
>
> V/R,
> William
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>> William,
>>
>> It seems likely that since the change to scanning behavior will likely
>> change many builds (as it's more accurate in tracing dependencies).
>>
>> As such I think we should pre-announce it.
>>
>> Is it safe to say this change "breaks compatibility"?
>> (If you ran a build to completion without change, and reran it you'd get
>> a new build, switch to this change and it may rebuild some files)
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:16 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Once we have finalized the patch, so that the behavioral changes can be
>>> concretely defined, I will update those two files or should we do a
>>> pre-release announcement like with the slots changes?
>>>
>>> V/R,
>>> William
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> William,
>>>>
>>>> I just got around to doing a thorough read of your pull request and
>>>> added a couple comments.
>>>>
>>>> Notably c++ doe (in the standard) support and require usage of header
>>>> files with no extension:
>>>> http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header
>>>>
>>>> Another item is that since this is a change in functionality,
>>>> documentation will need updates.
>>>> And we should probably put a section in the src/CHANGES.txt and
>>>> src/RELEASE.txt
>>>>
>>>> -Bill
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:18 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Russel.
>>>>>>
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