On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Dirk Bächle <tshor...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 18.02.2014 05:46, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> >> Why SCons bootstrap became dependent on external libraries? >> I find it a major usability regression. Can this be fixed? > > it didn't suddenly become dependent, it always was.
There is a mistake. The bootstrap process never require documentation tools to be present. > hg up 2.3.0 > bootstrap.py C:\Python27\python.exe R:\scons\bootstrap\src\script\scons.py scons: Reading SConscript files ... doc: jw not found, skipping building User Guide. doc: WARNING: no groff, skipping text and PostScript versions of man pages ... The bootstrap.py "is a minimal build of SCons to bootstrap the full build of all the packages, as specified in our local SConstruct file." > We're now using DocBook, > so we need to process and transform XML...that's the single dependency to > either libxml2 or lxml. And it's not a dependency for the regular user, but > the role of the developer... Although that's not relevant. I think that we need to summarize Sphinx vs Docbook vs Semantic MediaWiki page at some place as well as previous workflow. We've already got a lot of info, but it is not compressed for public consumption. I feel that Sphinx is not ideal for our workflow, but I also feel that it is easier to augment Sphinx with our specific markup than to maintain Docbook toolchain. This needs to be more than just a feeling. > Before that we required the full list of required tools as given at the > bottom of http://www.scons.org/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Documentation . If you'd > switch to another tool like e.g. Sphinx, as you suggested under > http://www.scons.org/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Documentation/Discussion, then that > would be the new dependency. It's just switching names, so I don't see how > this is any better... > > So, > > - the external dependencies have actually been reduced, and > - no, I don't think it can't be "fixed". ;) Sphinx is pure Python dependency, but the point is that documentation dependencies for the bootstrap script should remain optional as it already was before, so that SCons was self-sufficient to build itself and run from checkout. _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list Scons-dev@scons.org http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
