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

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:24 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:


> I am actually thinking about stripping Docbook toolchain altogether

> (better sooner than later), and move its maintenance into separate repo,

> because its addition tripled repository size for all subsequent versions.

>


That seems a bit extreme to me, but perhaps I don't understand what you're
proposing.

I guess you're proposing to remove src/engine/SCons/Tool/docbook (i.e. most
of commit 5ba470ff00b2) on the principle that it is just a copy of
something that is source-controlled elsewhere?  I could see that I guess.
 But it won't actually make a fresh hg clone much smaller since it'll still
be in the history (unless we strip it, which I don't think is a good idea
at all).  Just removing that dir takes a clean checked out repo from 67MB
to 48MB for me, which is not a huge savings.  I think the whole repo is
still very reasonable in size.

-- 
Gary
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