[Scons-users] DefaultEnvironment (was Re: StaticLibrary builder)

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 22:15 -0400, Greg Ward wrote:

> On 08 August 2012, Bill Deegan said:

> > As an aside, I'd like to get rid of DefaultEnvironment entirely.

> 

> Really? My SConstruct does this

> 

>   env = DefaultEnvironment(

>      ...vars...

>      )

> 

> and then every SConscript starts with

> 

>   env = DefaultEnvironment()

> 

> or

> 

>   env = DefaultEnvironment().Clone()

> 

> and it all works great. Should I be using Import() and Export() instead?


I use Export, Import and Return to make SConscripts usable as functions,
seems to work well.


> (I really dislike Import() and export() on aesthetic grounds, because

> they conflate names and strings. Yuck.)


All name are but string keys in dictionaries in Python, so I have
problem with the Export/Import/Return mechanism.

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