[Scons-dev] Contribution to SCons development.

[Bill Deegan]

You may just need to import the constants from python modules to be
available..?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Shreedhar Manek <shreedharmanek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From the description -
>
> The Chmod action requires a numeric for the mode. For a long time now the chmod command has processed string modes so the user does not have to remember or look
> up the numeric values. The Chmod action should allow forthe string mode specification.
>
> The Chmod action referred to here is the os.chmod() method in the source
> code, correct? So consequently what I need to do is convert a string to its
> corresponding octal integer so that the Chmod action can accept the string
> too. Can you confirm?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Shreedhar,
>>
>> On 18.11.2014 07:29, Shreedhar Manek wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I had emailed on here a few days back asking for some help so that I can
>>> contribute to SCons. I'm grateful for the response and I read the guides
>>> that I was directed to.
>>>
>>> I read up to chapter 8 of the documentation beyond which it was getting
>>> a tad bit complicated for me. I shall absolutely get back to it later
>>> (college end semester exams coming up!). I also looked around on the other
>>> links (man page, developer's guide).
>>>
>>> I checked the bug marked 'easy' on tigris and I found this one which I'd
>>> like to fix - http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2494.
>>> Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea what I should do next to go about
>>> fixing the same. What do I do next?
>>>
>>>  the next steps for you would be:
>>
>>   - ensuring that you can run your forked version of the repo (see
>> README.rst in top-level folder)
>>   - running a full regression test with "python runtest.py -a"
>>   - finding the "Chmod" method in the sources
>>   - ensuring that it's the right place you've found, for example by
>> adding a simple print statement to it
>>   - changing the "Chmod" to show the wanted behaviour
>>   - running the regression test again, to ensure that you didn't break
>> anything
>>   - adapting/adding tests and documentation for the new/changed
>> functionality
>>   - create your pull request
>>
>> or something along those lines.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>
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