[Scons-dev] 2013+ projects

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Here's my ideas about what projects are important this year (and into the
future -- there's too much here for a year unless we attract some new
developers).  I put this out as food for thought, and to start discussion
-- I'm sure you will have different opinions, things I haven't thought
about.  Please chime in!

SCons projects for 2013

   - Toolchain revamp
      - Goals
         - Toolchain specs with AND/OR/error
         - Easy install of external tools
         - Decouple standard tools from core
         - Allow tools to take args (version, arch, ...) w/o polluting env
       - Issues
         - Users need to be able to set up tool chains before SConstruct
         - Users need to be able to set toolchains for default env
         - Need reliable exists() method
         - Don't modify env['PATH'], allow specific path-setting per tool
            - but make that debuggable
          - Can we make it back-compatible?
        - Node cleanup
      - Speed
      - Memory
      - Extensibility
      - Separate concerns
         - Filesystem
         - Dependency info
         - Signatures
        - Subst logic
      - Arrays, strings
      - Predictability
      - Orthogonality
      - Compatibility
    - Taskmaster
      - not most important in 2013
    - Python 3
      - Compatibility
      - Options
         - 2.7+3?
         - python3 version
         - ?
       - How did the ML vote come out?


-- 
Gary
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