[Scons-users] strange behavior with path as an array

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:


> Robert,

>

>

> On 12.09.2013 21:54, robert zeigler wrote:

>

>> Hi Dirk,

>>

>> I realize the form is invalid, and I don't expect scons to support it. As

>> a user, my expectation is that scons would have detected the unsupported

>> form and thrown an error early. [...]

>>

>>

> detecting unsupported forms and sanely reacting to them, is a kind of

> support in itself. And trying to detect all unsupported constructs (what

> about "path = ['/path1:/path2', ['/path3', '/path4']]" ?) is like opening a

> very big can of worms. ;)

>

> What you say is true of course.  But there does seem to be something odd

here about the way it fails.  It's worth understanding why -- Robert, if
you could at least submit a bug report that would be helpful.  As Dirk says
though it probably can't be top priority at the moment. :-)

-- 
Gary
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