[Scons-dev] Cross-language support

Tue Jul 28 14:01:03 EDT 2015

Gary,

For such a change we should bump the second digit?
2.4?

I agree we should not turn down a change because it will cause rebuilds
where the past didn't as long as it is now more correct (which it should be
with this change).
Also agree we should be verbose in our notification of the impacts of the
new change to avoid (as much as we can) "surprises".

-Bill

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bill!  I don't think it's "compatibility breaking" in that existing
> SConscripts will continue to work without change, but it _will_ require
> (cause) a rebuild in many cases, and we do usually pre-announce those
> changes and call them out in the release notes so people with huge projects
> don't get surprised.  (Just to be clear, I'm not as averse to changes that
> cause rebuilds as Steven used to be -- it's sensible to avoid them when
> possible, but I don't think we need to avoid otherwise-sensible changes to
> avoid rebuilds every now & then.)
>
> -- Gary
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *"Bill Deegan" <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> *To: *"SCons developer list" <scons-dev at scons.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, July 28, 2015 11:56:00 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [Scons-dev] Cross-language support
>
> 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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>>>>>> russel at winder.org.uk
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>>>>>>
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> --
> Gary
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