[Scons-dev] SCons issues - An overview...

Sat May 24 14:34:32 EDT 2014

I've just reviewed and closed many of the issues in your first set.  More
to do of course but it's a start.

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>wrote:

> Thanks, Dirk!  This is a lot to go through, let's just keep picking them
> off as we can.
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've done some cleanup work in our Tigris bug tracker (marking duplicates
>> and such) and noticed a few issues that might get closed right away. When I
>> list items in the following, complete with ID and assignee, this is not
>> meant as an order to take immediate action. Please don't take offense when
>> your name pops up, these are friendly reminders...if at all. ;)
>>
>> It would be cool, if these issues could get revised in the near future:
>>
>> - #2490,#1912,#1917: is this development of a C# tool superseded by
>> Russel's repo?
>> - #2538, SK: create IRC freenode.net channel with a "group" as owner, is
>> this done already?
>> - #2533, Gary: installer issue under Vista, does this still happen?
>> - #2703, Bill: ditto for Windows 7, still an issue?
>>
>> - #2669, Gary: fixed completely, or only for Linux? (commit 64f297,
>> 2010-09-16)
>> - #2451, Gary: infrastructure for extensions (=ToolsIndex), close?
>> - #2403, Bill: Problem when not specifying buildtarget with MSVS
>> Projects, problem or not?
>> - #2124, Azverkan: Install() race condition, might be gone in newer
>> Python versions?
>> - #1900, Gary: intel detection tool is hard coded for lookups, superseded
>> by current code?
>>
>> - #1915, Bill: VPATH Search bug
>> - #2114, SK: .F files no longer recognized on some platforms
>> - #2544, Anatoly: Remove links for archived documentation
>> - #2564, Gary: Wiki upgrade + OpenID
>>
>> - #2697, #2675, #2667, #2663, #2661, #2612, #2570, #2148, #2212, #1753,
>> #2885, #2820, #2622, #2694: lots of Windows/MSVC related bugs that might be
>> resolved after the big toolchain revamp
>>
>>
>> Then, I also found several issues that have some importance for
>> development, in my opinion. They probably need to get discussed in the
>> group, because often a direction has to be taken (either, or). I'm not sure
>> how we would go about this, but here are the IDs:
>>
>> - #608:  Unices multi platform support
>> - #2439: Expanding "#" for RPATH
>> - #2167: subprocess for win32.py
>> - #2581: Alias looking like a file gets ignored when chaining aliases
>> - #2648: Dir causes TypeError in build phase
>> - #2550: Combining Java, Install and Jar builders can cause
>> "AttributeError"
>> - #2594: source=None disables dependency on action
>> - #2517: Java buidler does nothing when duplicate=1
>> - #1708: sources scanned even with --implicit-cache
>> - #1406: Spaces in path incorrectly handled by Qt tool
>> - #2455: confdefs.h is never created by configure context
>> - #2498: Delayed creation of default Environment overwrites scanner
>> assignments
>> - #2608: Add a progress indicator (# of # targets)
>> - #1945: scons should not cache implicit dependnecy found from a
>> directory scanner
>> - #2460: Alias with depends instead of sources is never rebuilt
>> - #824:  Remove os.chdir() from SCons itself
>> - #1328: Program() has  Value node handling bug
>> - #2831: AddOption and help display with "-h"
>> - #2611: -h flag does not print local option help
>> - #2081: Better messaging need for *** Two environments with different
>> actions were specified for the same target error
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>>
>> Finally, here are lists of "low hanging fruit":
>>
>> - #1991, Bill: document CheckTypeSize()
>> - #1985, Bill: document Platform()
>> - #2688, SK: add scons to PATH after installation under Windows
>> - #2652, Gary: document CopyTo()/CopyAs()
>> - #2477, Bill: amend MAN page entry for DefaultEnvironment
>> - #798,  Bill: Export() in subsconscript can override values (Export is
>> global!)
>> - #2633, Anatoly: update Getting Started
>> - #2444, Bill: Unclear where env.WhereIs searches for executables
>> - #780,  Gary: Document setting BUILDERS value to a callable wrapper
>> - #2361, SK: class Tool: self.options is not a callable entity
>> - #1874, Gary: scons fails to append .so if the library name os a period
>> in it
>> - #2427, Bill: STATIC_AND_SHARED_OBJECTS_ARE_THE_SAME not in man page
>> - #2600, Gary: Command not executed when args > 8191 (document
>> MAXLINELENGTH)
>> - #2565, SK: link SHCXXCOMSTR to CXXCOMSTR in docs
>>
>>
>> and patches that don't seem to require much work:
>>
>> - #2553, Gary: Allow specification of non-standard package type in
>> Package()
>> - #2696, SK: Improve performance with --duplicate=copy
>> - #2630, SK: Problem using tempfile class with batch building
>> - #2569, SK: Regexp for RCScan
>> - #2575, Jason: Add chdir functionallity to zip-builder
>> - #1920, Gary: Support parameter replacement in files
>> - #1910, Gary: Recursive flag ignored in dictionary based scanners
>> - #2450, Gary: Improvement for Variables updating
>> - #2431, Bill: Allow customisation of tempfile extension
>> - #806,  Gary: Builder for mozilla xpidl files.
>> - #2222, Ray: Created Builder for Motif Uil files
>> - #1615, David: Fortran scanner not picking up #include statements
>> - #1761, Gary: Support for precompiled headers in intelc
>> - #2799, Issues: Mingw tool does not respect SHLINKCOMSTR and
>> LDMODULECOMSTR
>>
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> Gary
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Gary
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