[Scons-users] Mixing configuration and nodes

[Dirk Baechle]

Hi Ludovic, 

Philip Kraus wrote a download / install builder for the purposes you describe. I'm not sure which state it's in currently, but you might give it a try :

https://github.com/flashpixx/Storage/Scons

Best regards, 

Dirk

Am 9. Oktober 2015 10:15:09 MESZ, schrieb ludovic.courtes at inria.fr:
>Paweł Tomulik <ptomulik at meil.pw.edu.pl> skribis:
>
>> except there is a reason to use scons for downloads, I'd rather
>suggest
>> to provide a bash or python script that downloads D.
>
>I should mention that this is what we’re currently doing, in a Python
>script invoked from SConstruct.
>
>However, this is unsatisfying for several reasons.  The main reason is
>that we end up implementing functionality comparable to SCons nodes:
>semantically we want one node for the source download, one node for the
>unpacking, one node for the build, and one node for installation.
>
>Doing it by hand means coming up with an ad hoc, informally-specified,
>bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of SCons (or ‘make’, for that
>matter.)
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Ludo’.
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