[Scons-users] Pandoc Tool

[Bill Deegan]

Keith,

Great!
1 . As long as users could also uninstall, then yes please add that to your
PR?
2. Yes. Definitely.  It's been on the todo list for quite some time. Any
help would be appreciated!
   dev list is probably a good place to discuss.  Also our discord server
is pretty active and we have a #devel channel there.

-Bill

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:50 PM Keith F Prussing <kprussing74 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And [PR] submitted.  I'm just glad to help!  I decided to forgo
> transferring the entire history because it was quite a bit of a mess.
> Instead, I opted to just link to the original history for archival purposes.
>
> While cleaning up to contribute I did come up with a couple questions:
>
> 1.  I managed to figure out how to get `pip install` working with a
> directory structure similar to scons-contrib.  However, it does install
> directly to the SCons directory in the installation and appears to only
> work with SCons >4.  Is the scons-contrib project interested in getting
> that up and running?
> 2.  Have you thought about adopting a pattern like [sphinx-contrib]?  If
> SCons knew to check the `sconscontrib.<package>` that could lower the
> barrier to Tool contribution.  But that would obviously be a fundamental
> change within SCons itself.
>
> If either of these is more appropriate over on the dev list, I'm happy to
> migrate the discussion over there.
>
> Keith
>
> [PR]: https://github.com/SCons/scons-contrib/pull/37
> [sphinx-contrib]: https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/
>
> On 2021-07-01, Bill Deegan wrote:
> >Also if you can MIT license the code that make's it possible for us to
> pull
> >into core at some point if that makes sense.
> >
> >On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 9:54 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 7/1/21 7:09 AM, Bill Deegan wrote:
> >> > Keith,
> >> > That'd be great!
> >> >
> >> > Let us know if you need any help.
> >> >
> >> > -Bill
> >> > SCons Project Co-Manager
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 12:17 AM Keith Prussing <kprussing74 at gmail.com
> >> > <mailto:kprussing74 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >     Over the past few years I've been poking at a [Tool] for SCons to
> >> >     add support for Pandoc by scanning dependencies including images,
> >> >     filters, templates, and bibliographies.  I think I finally have it
> >> >     stable enough for general perusal.  If there is enough interest,
> I'd
> >> >     be willing to contribute it to the [scons-contrib] repository to
> >> >     make it easier for others to locate and use it.
> >> >
> >> >     [Tool]: https://github.com/kprussing/scons-pandoc
> >> >     <https://github.com/kprussing/scons-pandoc>
> >> >     [scons-contrib]: https://github.com/SCons/scons-contrib
> >> >     <https://github.com/SCons/scons-contrib>
> >>
> >> For grins, I used this recipe to prepare a PR pulling another externally
> >> developed tool into scons-contrib while keeping its history, if that's
> >> something you want to do (that PR remains outstanding so you won't see
> >> the result in the existing scons-contrib git)
> >>
> >> # inside my scons-contrib working tree...
> >> git remote add -f sconscontrib/SCons/Tool/qt4
> >> git at github.com:dirkbaechle/scons_qt4.git
> >> git merge --strategy=ours --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories
> >> sconscontrib/SCons/Tool/qt4/master
> >> git read-tree --prefix=sconscontrib/SCons/Tool/qt4 -u
> >> sconscontrib/SCons/Tool/qt4/master
> >> git commit -m "subtree merged in sconscontrib/SCons/Tool/qt4"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> https://github.com/SCons/scons-contrib/pull/36
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