[Scons-users] SCons as a library

[William Deegan]

Matias,
On Oct 9, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Matias Iturburu <matias.iturburu at tallertechnologies.com> wrote:


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> 2013/10/9 Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de>

> Hi Matias,

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> On 09.10.2013 16:36, Matias Iturburu wrote:

> Hello list.

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> At work I'm maintaining a build tool based on SCons, fudepan-build (https://code.google.com/p/fudepan-build/).

> It's been used quite a lot for a number of projects and every project in FuDePAN (http://fudepan.org.ar/).

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> The tool has grown over the years and itself has its number of design mistakes sort of defeating the purpose of using SCons.

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> Do you guys knows of something that already does that? or some other comment about the project?

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> can you possibly tell which functionality exactly is missing in SCons, and that you have to add or provide with your own fudepan-build tool? Maybe it could be added to either SCons or Parts (Did you already have a look at the latter? Visit http://parts.tigris.org/ )...just as an idea.

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> Haven't seen Parts. Really interesting.

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> I think is not a matter of things that are missing in SCons as much as things that SCons should not be doing, like checking out my (or my organization's) project from its repo, running unittests or coverage metrics against my project, running static analysis tools. Actions that doesn't have to do with actually building the project but with giving new members a faster ramp up and formalizing the organization workflow.



Not sure why you think that SCons should not be doing those tasks.
Many users have added such logic to their SCons implementation with great success.
It's likely that you just don't want SCons to do those items by default (without explicitly asking for them to be run).

-Bill


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> I'll give parts a ride to see how it overlaps with fbuild.

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> Best regards,

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> Dirk

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