[Scons-dev] Cross-language support

[Bill Deegan]

Gary & Dirk,

Thoughts on whether this change introduces compatibility breaking change?

-Bill

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> William,
>
> It seems likely that since the change to scanning behavior will likely
> change many builds (as it's more accurate in tracing dependencies).
>
> As such I think we should pre-announce it.
>
> Is it safe to say this change "breaks compatibility"?
> (If you ran a build to completion without change, and reran it you'd get a
> new build, switch to this change and it may rebuild some files)
>
> -Bill
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:16 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Once we have finalized the patch, so that the behavioral changes can be
>> concretely defined, I will update those two files or should we do a
>> pre-release announcement like with the slots changes?
>>
>> V/R,
>> William
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> William,
>>>
>>> I just got around to doing a thorough read of your pull request and
>>> added a couple comments.
>>>
>>> Notably c++ doe (in the standard) support and require usage of header
>>> files with no extension:
>>> http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header
>>>
>>> Another item is that since this is a change in functionality,
>>> documentation will need updates.
>>> And we should probably put a section in the src/CHANGES.txt and
>>> src/RELEASE.txt
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:18 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> <Likely going off-topic…>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 00:20 -0400, William Blevins wrote:
>>>>> > Thanks for responding everyone.  I just wanted a "heart beat" so to
>>>>> > speak,
>>>>>
>>>>> You could always play the start of Dark Side of the Moon ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> > since I wasn't sure how many members were watching the devs list.
>>>>> >  I'm not
>>>>> > asking anyone to stop what they are doing, but a lot of what I have
>>>>> > left is
>>>>> > requirements related questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whilst I note every email, I mostly delete and move on due to not
>>>>> having enough time to properly contribute.
>>>>>
>>>>> > I will hopefully still be able to work on SCons after early
>>>>> > September, but
>>>>> > I am going to be a little disorganized during the move and culture
>>>>> > adjustment.  I will be overseas for a year getting my MSc in Great
>>>>> > Britain.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just to note that Great Britain is a geographic but not political
>>>>> entity, something the ISO committees handing out country codes chose to
>>>>> forget when trying to solve the UK/Ukraine problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where will you be studying and living when here?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> University of Sussex in Brighton; approximately Sept 2015 - Sept 2016.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > Also, I may not have my high-end workstation. I'm still debating
>>>>> > whether or
>>>>> > not I want to break it down and ship it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess this depends on cost. It always seems that countries shipping
>>>>> to UK pay about 0.5 or 0.3 the cost of shipping the same from the UK.
>>>>> Basically all companies (especially USA ones) charge far more in the UK
>>>>> for everything than they charge anywhere else in the world.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cost plus risk of it getting damaged.  I generally build my own
>>>> workstations, so it's not like shipping X-U server form-factored machines.
>>>> I will have to dismantle it prior to shipping.  I'm tempted to ship it case
>>>> less and buy another one in Britain because it'll be cheaper than shipping
>>>> (probably).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Russel.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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