[Scons-dev] adding more configure tests to SCons

[Managan, Rob]

Hi Dirk,

We might want to add a Utilities?? Directory as well. I have things like
an install function that lets you set permissions and what unix group owns
the file and such.

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On 1/28/15, 10:05 AM, "Dirk Bächle" <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

>Hi Carnë,
>
>We already discussed a thing like this in the past...but so far didn't
>take any action(s). But we can do this now. ;) My idea would
>be to simply setup an additional "scons_contrib" repo with the following
>folder structure:
>
>scons_contrib
>└── SCons
>     ├── Config
>     └── Tool
>
>We could collect all Autoconf-like modules/packages in "Config", and
>"Tool" would be for snapshots of external Tools (as listed in
>the ToolsIndex). The "scons_contrib" would get a setup.py for an easy
>install to the current system. By adding the "scons_contrib"
>path to the start script (script/scons.py) a user could then access all
>Tools and Config modules with:
>
>   import SCons.Tool
>   import SCons.Config
>
>in his SConstructs/SConscripts.
>
>Comments? Ideas? Objections?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Dirk
>
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