Re: [scons-devel] First split up of SConf.py

Hi Bram (et al.)--

> At the end you will find a diff for splitting up the SConf.py file into
> a part that is SConf-specific and a generic part, called Conftest.py.
> 
> The generic part is also used by the configure feature of Aap.
> I am currently checking in the changes into CVS (see the download page:
> http://www.a-a-p.org/download.html).  Note that SourceForge has a backup
> CVS server, it may not have the new version 1.012 for a while.  Make
> sure you use the real-time server for downloading.

Thanks for the work on this.  It looks like a fruitful direction, and
I'm glad we're finding some common ground here.  I'll likely be folding
this change into SCons proper right after I release 0.91 (I think
tomorrow).  I just completed the SWIG support that was the pacing item
for this release and I want to get it out the door before I succumb to
the temptation to throw too much else in... :-)

How do you (or anyone else) think we should go about keeping this module
in sync in the future?  Since it's just a few projects using it at the
moment, we could just keep each other informed of changes directly.

Another possibility would be to make a separate project for development
of this module, from which A-A-P and SCons (and autoscons? and
others...) could incorporate new releases as appropriate.  That
would also make it pretty straightforward to publicize the module
independently through the Python Package Index, Freshmeat, etc., which
might attract more developers specifically interested in this piece.

I already have infrastructure in place for some of this (I'm maintaining
TestCmd.py as a separate project internally), so I'd volunteer some time
to set up things if we wanted to go this direction and no one else has
more cycles and is eager to do so.

Any other ways we might manage it?  Comments?

        --SK



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