[Scons-dev] Qt support

[Bill Deegan]

Greetings,

SCons has always been (as much as possible) a batteries include tool.
For me personally, and also from many questions on the mailing list and
IRC, having mainstream tools not in the core confuses users. I consider QT
to be a mainstream tool..

I'd suggest the following:
1) deprecate qt, rename it qt3
2) integrate qt4 and qt5 into the core.

Thoughts? I know I'm disagreeing with others, hopefully this isn't just
bike sheding (Please call me on it if it is).

That said, I think it would be a great idea to add non-mainstream tools as
python packages distributed via pypi which would install into the core or
in such a way that the core would find them.

-Bill


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:


> On 15.04.2013 00:09, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

>

>> Dirk makes a very good point, one we've thought about for a long time.

>>  It might be a good time, as we prep for the next version, to think about a

>> contrib system.  (In any case, we should either import the Qt4/5 tools or

>> delete the Qt3 one though.)  Dirk, is there a way for us to leverage pypi

>> for this?  Can it install tools into a dir that we could add to the

>> site_tools path for instance?  I don't know if we could (or should) build a

>> web-based contrib system ourselves.

>>

>>

> I don't want to install the contributed tools into the usual site_scons

> directory. They go straight into the SCons install, alongside with "doc",

> "src", "QMTest" there would then be a "contrib" folder.

> I can't offer any experience with pypi, so I don't know whether this is

> possible...but something like this should be the goal.

>

> We can't be the first people on the planet trying to distribute additional

> software packages...there has to be a solution out there. Let's find and

> use it, instead of inventing our own. ;)

>

>

>  I am trying to get started on toolchain revamp ideas (which would

>> integrate with the above idea).  I'll try to put out some kind of strawman

>> document soon.

>>

>>

> Sounds great!

>

> Dirk

>

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