[Scons-dev] on demand Program tool initialization

Dirk Bächle tshortik at gmx.de
Sun Aug 10 13:40:35 EDT 2014


On 10.08.2014 19:24, anatoly techtonik wrote:
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> Right now the scenario plot is this.
> [ ] I feel like SCons is slow.
>    . it probably because SCons initializes unneeded tools, which take time to
>      discover their binaries
>    [ ] I don't want SCons to initialize unneeded tools or search for binaries if
>        that slows me down
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> Another scenario:
> [ ] I want to know what tools my script uses without reading docs (because
>      they often outdated), compiling anything or installing all these tools
> A development:
> [ ] I want scons to tell me what tools do I needed to compile specific script
>      or target
>
That's very good, just continue like this...and feel free to use a tool 
of your own choice to select and maintain further paragraphs (=use 
cases). We can always reference them per URL from the Wiki pages, I guess.

Thanks a lot for contributing to the new Toolchain design.

Dirk



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