[Scons-dev] Qt support

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 19:11 -0700, 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 wonder if we should challenge this "batteries included" approach by
providing a very lightweight packaging of tools and things using DVCS
(Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Fossil, Darcs, etc.)
 

> 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).


Given that qt is already included, I vote for this solution, in this
case. I'd hate to see it used as a generalized answer in the future
though, since that would miss the opportunity for decentralization.


> 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.


PyPI is a great Python resource, assuming it is up. It suffers by being
a central resource rather than a distributed resource. If a tool is a
package then it is already distributable as a SCons tool.

-- 
Russel.
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