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

[Bill Deegan]

Anatoly,

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

I'm not saying that a "recipe book" wouldn't also be useful, but a
reference to the system is always needed.

-Bill


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:08 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:02 PM, William Deegan
> <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> > Anatoly,
> >
> > A manpage is supposed to be the definitive list of all the API’s.
>
> Now explain that to every Windows user. )
>
> > If you think you can do anything substantive with a system based on a
> > cursory read of some short documentation, I believe you are mistaken.
>
> Oh that ancient and dark Unix world. People learn games by playing or
> by cursory reading of some short documentation. I believe you are not
> right. I don't try to persuade me that build system and a game are not
> related pieces of software. https://xkcd.com/303/
>
> There are two things that I value in SCons:
> 1. simplicity, which is usability + intuitiveness
> 2. portability
>
> Expressive man pages doesn't add to any of those.
> --
> anatoly t.
>
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