[Scons-dev] D tool development workflow

[Bill Deegan]

I think reporting bugs for one part of SCons in a different repository is
not a good idea.
If the intent is to get it into the scons core.
If the intent is to provide as a standalone, then bugtrack on whichever
system you'd like.

-Bill

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> I believe that development of the D tools is going to be improved by
> assuming that other D tool users want to work with a standard SCons and
> updates just to the D tools; that they are not interested in working
> with SCons from a Mercurial clone that has to be managed. I am
> therefore going to make https://github.com/russel/SCons_D_Experiment
> the focus of all D tool evolution and then providing pull requests to
> the SCons BitBucket mainline. A little more work for me in that I
> develop in one repository and then update another, but the D world is a
> Git world and so using a Git repository is more natural for handling
> experiments.
>
> I am also going to break ranks and have D tool issues come in to this
> repository. D folk are GitHub folk, I am not going to push them to
> Tigris for bug reporting – especially as I never go there myself any
> more.
>
> This is about pragmatics, I believe more will be achieved this way.
>
> Hopefully, what has started is a race for SCons and Meson to beat Dub
> in building D code.
>
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