On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 14:03 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote: > >> just saw that PyConUK ( http://pyconuk.org/ ) has started their call for >> proposals (talks/sprints/whatever), that get accepted by 19th August. I >> guess this mainly goes out to Russel ;) , but it would be cool if SCons >> would be on the conference schedule in some way.
I'd be happy to give a talk in a broken English, but UK requires a separate visa and discriminating travel expenses. =) > The question is what is the interesting Python angle? 1. Subprocess + Parts definitely. 2. "Compiling C programs for Python programmers" - I am lost in all those compiler, linker specifics, options and keys, and badly need a reference 3. This is a continuation of the problem above - make an overview of current tools and toolchain descriptions, add pictures and problems that SCons have, so that interested people can join to help us > I did some full > sessions on SCons 2007 and 2008. Most of the time I am plugging > concurrency, parallelism and the "pain in the arse" that is the GIL. > However that fight has been lost as Guido seems committed to the GIL in > CPython, and Armin's experiments using STM are not really gaining much > traction in PyPy or CPython. Well, STM is not ready yet, but people are watching closely into this as well as into https://github.com/dropbox/pyston _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list Scons-dev@scons.org http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev