[Scons-users] [Scons-dev] Support for Tools via a pip package / python module in sys path

[Bill Deegan]

Wouldn't this work and not require any changes?
Or if it doesn't already work, wouldn't that be easier syntax? no
additional arguments, if it's got a '.' in it then you know it's part of a
package?

toollist = ['scons_toollib_example.TestBuilder1']
env = Environment(ENV = os.environ, tools = toollist)
env.TestBuilder1('testdest1.txt', 'testsrc1.txt')

How would you handle overloaded tool names in a module?
For example
scons_toollib_example has a gcc tool?

-Bill



On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:53 PM, RW via Scons-dev <scons-dev at scons.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
> One of the features I'm interested in is the ability to have tools loaded
> externally via a package installed via pip.
> This way if you wanted to, you could ether install tools as a separate
> repo via pip, or move some of the existing tools into separate repo's
>
> I think I've come up with a way to do it which doesn't involve much code.
> But before I add in any tests or additions to the man page / user docs I
> wanted to check if this is an okay way to implement this
>
> I've put the commit here:
> https://bitbucket.org/grbd/scons/commits/af3ea9f2d4468479f7f7be73afd455
> b0f2067409
>
> With this method there's an additional option on the environment
> constructor called toolmods
>
> ```
> toollist = ['TestBuilder1']
> env = Environment(ENV = os.environ, tools = toollist, toolmods =
> ['scons_toollib_example'])
> env.TestBuilder1('testdest1.txt', 'testsrc1.txt')
> ```
>
> This option looks up the directory where the module is located in the sys
> path and adds it to the toolpath
> (e.g. C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\scons_toollib_example)
>
> A side effect is that the module file gets imported at the same time
> (scons_toollib_example\__init__.py is run)
> I just do this to get the full path to the module when adding to the
> toolpath, although you could probably use that to modify scons or do
> something else when the tool is referenced if you wanted to.
>
> Is this implementation is a good idea? if so I'll look into adding some
> tests and user doc entries for it before doing a pull request
>
> Many Thanks
> Richard
>
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