Is this something that needs some planning and action so that it doesn't fall through the cracks?
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:34 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Gary Oberbrunner <ga...@oberbrunner.com>: > > I agree about the importance of getting this in, but would like to > > push 2.2 out first. Two reasons: 1, I think your patch will need some > > real-world testing in checkpoint releases for a while before we get it > > all right on all platforms, and I'd like to not hold 2.2 for that. > > That is reasonable. I think this should be the top-priority new feature > for 2.3, though. I believe the lack of it has been slowing down scons > adoption a *lot*. > > > And 2, the work needed to integrate it is more than I can do in a few > > hours: it needs tests and doc (I think both user guide and man page) > > at least. > > > > Have you created a Tigris ticket for it, with your patch? > > I have not, because I don't have anything I consider a final patch. > I never had a patch to scons itself; what I had was code that created > a pseudo-builtin in my recipe file. > > The reason I have not pursued this is because, as I said in my last > email, I now think having a separate versioned-shared-library builtin > may not be the right thing. The profusion of builtins in scons is > bewildering and something of a problem; wouldn't it be better to have > SharedLibrary take a version argument and do the right thing? > > This goal makes a larger problem of the fact that I don't know your code > and I don't know your test frameworks. It's probably about three > hours' work to fold this feature into SharedLibrary starting from my > code for someone who already knows your code, but I'd have to spend a > couple of days learning my way in first. Sorry, but that just seems > like an inefficient and silly way to do things - and I'm swamped with > work on three other projects. > > Would someobody more on the inside take the lead on this, please? > I'm willing to help live-test the results and write documentation. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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