[Scons-dev] Qt support

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Bill,

On 15.04.2013 04:11, Bill Deegan wrote:

>

> 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).

>


everything you say above makes sense to me. I don't need the Qt tools in 
the core, but I don't need them external either. All I'd like to see is 
a clear direction in which we are going, and you're offering one.
I'm a 100% for doing it like this, if no objections from other people 
show up.


> 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.

>


I agree.

Regards,

Dirk