[Scons-dev] Documentation

[Bill Deegan]

Can you share your work in progress on bitbucket?

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 11:19 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean.. Can you explain?
>
> For the dub tool, I believe I need a target node that is not a
> SCons.Node.FS.File nor a SCons.Node.FS.Dir, but the builder
> infrastructure is demanding that this be the case. I thus wanted to
> create a _Library class that was a sub-class of SCons.Node.FS.File but
> with all the rest of the information carried as well. (I may be going
> up totally the wrong tree, but this is learning by hacking, seeking
> feedback.) So I was looking for documentation to find out how to call
> the superclass initialiser, i.e. SCons.Node.FS.File.__init__.
>
> |> PYTHONPATH=$HOME/Repositories/Mercurial/Forks/SCons/src/engine
> python
> Python 2.7.13 (default, Feb 21 2017, 12:00:39)
> [GCC 7.0.1 20170219 (Red Hat 7.0.1-0.9)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from SCons.Builder import Builder
> >>> help(Builder)
>
> Help on function Builder in module SCons.Builder:
>
> Builder(**kw)
>     A factory for builder objects.
>
> >>> help(Builder.__init__)
>
> Help on method-wrapper object:
>
> __init__ = class method-wrapper(object)
>  |  Methods defined here:
>  |
>  |  __call__(...)
>  |      x.__call__(...) <==> x(...)
>  |
>  |  __cmp__(...)
>  |      x.__cmp__(y) <==> cmp(x,y)
>  |
>  |  __getattribute__(...)
>  |      x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
>  |
>  |  __hash__(...)
>  |      x.__hash__() <==> hash(x)
>  |
>  |  __repr__(...)
>  |      x.__repr__() <==> repr(x)
>  |
>  |  -------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
>  |  Data descriptors defined here:
>  |
>  |  __objclass__
>  |
>  |  __self__
>
> Not entirely helpful. So rather than reading the manual RTFM (the user
> manually doesn't go into enough detail, the man page doesn't really
> discuss this stuff. Sadly reading the code RTFC (or source RTFS) isn't
> really that enlightening.
>
> So I started blundering around and have come up with something that
> sort of work, but I get the feeling it is not good SCons. However I am
> finding it difficult to enter into the world of custom builders beyond
> the trivial stuff I hacked up from wiki pages a few years back.
>
> > On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I see that pydoc on SCons.Builder.Builder is deeply profound. ;-)
> > >
> > > I guess this is not RTFM, it's RTFS :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Russel.
> > >
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> Russel.
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