[Scons-dev] SCons doesn't bootstrap without libxml2

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Anatoly,

On 18.02.2014 05:46, anatoly techtonik wrote:

> Why SCons bootstrap became dependent on external libraries?

> I find it a major usability regression. Can this be fixed?


it didn't suddenly become dependent, it always was. We're now using 
DocBook, so we need to process and transform XML...that's the single 
dependency to either libxml2 or lxml. And it's not a dependency for the 
regular user, but the role of the developer...

Before that we required the full list of required tools as given at the 
bottom of http://www.scons.org/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Documentation . If 
you'd switch to another tool like e.g. Sphinx, as you suggested under 
http://www.scons.org/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Documentation/Discussion, then 
that would be the new dependency. It's just switching names, so I don't 
see how this is any better...

So,

   - the external dependencies have actually been reduced, and
   - no, I don't think it can't be "fixed". ;)

Best regards,

Dirk