[Scons-users] Fwd:Re: timing issues and protecting from them

[Dirk Bächle]

Tom,

On 10.12.2015 09:13, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:
> Well, I can check the timing for that. But I don't see a necessity for rechecking the indirect dependencies
>

so an indirect dependency may change during a build, but a direct source not? This doesn't really make sense to me...but I 
understand where you're coming from. You have experienced this phenomenon of "hard to track down" build errors several times now, 
and want to do something about it. So please, as I mentioned in my earlier mail, start on an implementation for this feature if you 
find the time. The execute() and executed_with_callbacks() methods in the Taskmaster look like the best place to do that.
To me, this seems more like a job for the Taskmaster than putting new code in the Node() methods build()/built().
I'd derive a new ParanoidTaskmaster from the original class and then add my checks to that. This also includes generalizing the 
creation of the "Taskmaster" in the Main.py script, such that you can select between the "default" and your new version via a 
command-line switch.

Finally, the really paranoid people clearly separate builds from their edit cycles by building the final stuff on a different server 
for example. I happen to work in one of those places ;)...and we always build against fixed labels.

Best regards,

Dirk