[Scons-users] SCons vs Meson for Python projects

[Bill Deegan]

In the long run the goal is to break out many tools to be separate pip
install-able packages.
And/or added to https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons-contrib repo

-Bill


On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Saša Janiška <gour at atmarama.com> wrote:

> Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> writes:
>
> > I'd really like to know where you go (documentation, Internet) when
> > you are searching for information like this? If you want to know
> > whether a certain toolchain is supported in SCons, either in the core
> > or as external Tool, what do you lookup first?
>
> I was looking at the manual
> (http://scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-user.html) first, then in
> the man page (http://scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-man.html) since
> the manual has warning not to be up-to-date, iow. I was looking whether
> the desired tools are supported out-of-the-box in SCons.
>
> Then I looked in SconsToolbox
> (https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/SconsToolbox) since it mentions
> it is for “for contributed modules/extensions/scripts”, and there is
> nothing.
>
> Should I add that, personally, I prefer having “offline” docs
> written in some ’standard’ markup like rst/asciidoc over wikis…
>
> > I'm asking this because our ToolsIndex on the Wiki lists a reST Tool,
> > and when searching for "scons asciidoc" I get a hit immediately.
>
> ToolsIndex (https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/ToolsIndex) does list
> “rest (docutils)” and “sphinx4scons” with the links pointing at the
> external repos…[1]
>
> However, I do not see anything listed for Asciidoc.
>
> Searching for “scons asciidoc“ does provide link
> (https://github.com/marcecj/scons_asciidoc), but it does not look
> well-maintained, considering that these days AsciiDoctor is more widely
> used.
>
> Similarly, ToolsIndex also does not list support for Cython, although I
> was able to find it here:
> https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/master/Tools/site_
> scons/site_tools/cython.py
>
> Again, something one would like to see listed and/or supported
> out-of-the-box…at the end SCons is Python-powered build tool and one
> would expect first class support for the needs of Python devs.
>
> > Can we improve our documentation and our website in a way that would
> > make these informations easier to find for you? If yes, please make
> > concrete suggestions for this.
>
> See above.
>
> > @Russel: Just out of curiosity, what's this thing with "monospaced vs
> > proportional" fonts in reSt exactly about? Can you give some pointers
> > to a description of the problem? I'm genuinely interested because I
> > intend to use reST a lot in the future and might even try to promote
> > it at my working place.
>
> As you know, I was considering to use AsciiDoc, but, so far, I’m happy
> with reST.
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  I’d be happy seeing more python-project-related tools supported in
> the core. ;)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
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