[Scons-dev] mimetypes: adding mimetype for scons scripts

[Bill Deegan]

I looked at your patch. Looks good. Only thought I had was you could
probably have much more trivial files as the test files.

-Bill

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 21 January 2015 at 13:28, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21 January 2015 at 13:15, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >>> >>> scons [1] is a build system and I was thinking of adding it to
> >>> >>> shared-mime-info.  Its files are very simple to identify, they are
> >>> >>> always named SConstruct or SConscript.  These files are also valid
> >>> >>> python scripts.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Should shared-mime-info identify them (I can submit a git patch, no
> >>> >>> problem)
> >>
> >>
> >> This seems like an easy thing to add, with some possible upside and no
> >> downside.  So why not, I say. Carnë, I think it would be better for you
> to
> >> add it to shared-mime-info; SCons could do it but (a) it would be more
> >> complex, and (b) it wouldn't identify SConstructs when SCons isn't
> >> installed.
> >>
> >
> > Yes. shared-mime-info seems to agree with, they only need acceptance from
> > scons developers:
> >
> > On 20 January 2015 at 18:32, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> If a text/x-scons mime type is defined and accepted by the SCons devs,
> >> it would then be a sub-type of text/x-python.
> >> J. Leclanche
> >
> > So unless someone opposes I will submit a patch to shared-mime-info.
> > Regarding
> >
> > On 21 January 2015 at 01:28, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> SConstruct is a required name, but SConscript is not even though it may
> be
> >> the standard/convention.  The subscripts can use any name you like
> >> technically.  I usually include the "*.py" extension so that language
> >> bindings in editors work without setting changes.
> >
> > what if the magic uses the following globs for filenames "SConstruct",
> > "SConscript", and "SConscript.*" ?
>
>
> I have just added a patch for this to bug #87920 [1].  Could someone
> review it please?
>
> I also add 3 new tests based on SCons configuration which I found on the
> repositories for MongoDB, Battle for Wesnoth, and SCons itself.
>
> Carnë
>
> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87920
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