[Scons-dev] SCons learning curve (Was: New symlink copy support)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:16 AM, William Deegan
<bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> William,
>
> Yes that is used for VariantDir’s..
> There’s also an argument to such:
>
> BuildDir(build_dir, src_dir, [duplicate]) , env.BuildDir(build_dir, src_dir,
> [duplicate])
> Deprecated synonyms for VariantDir and env.VariantDir(). The build_dir
> argument becomes the variant_dir argument of VariantDir or env.VariantDir().
> Note you’ll find more detail in the
> manpage:http://scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-man.htmlSearch for
> VariantDir().
> If you’re going to use SCons in any significant way, a thorough read of the
> manpage and user guide will serve you well.

Thorough read is a big design fail if you ask me. Tools for humans
need to be intuitive, so I hope our goal is to get a tool that needs
very short introduction to get going, and just a short reference for
all major concepts.
-- 
anatoly t.