Re: [A-A-P-develop] Feature tests, next try.

[Bram M. <Br...@mo...>]

Steven Knight wrote:

> > Perhaps it's a good idea to also send an overview of your ideas to one
> > of the Python lists.  I expect there are several people who have thought
> > about an autoconf replacement in Python.
> 
> The idea has come up periodically on the SCons lists--multiple requests
> on scons-users, some slightly more in-depth discussion on scons-devel.
> Nothing concrete has yet come of any of that discussion, but we do plan
> to make sure that SCons offers this sort of functionality in the future.
> 
> Joerg, I'd like to invite you to keep myself (and the rest of the SCons
> team) informed of what you find.  If you (or anyone else) starts a
> serious autoconf-in-Python effort, we'll definitely contribute time and
> energy to help, and make sure that SCons works well with it (and vice
> versa).
> 
> If no likely autoconf replacement has emerged by the time we want to add
> this functionality to SCons, we do plan to create one ourselves.  But
> I'd much rather cooperate with others thinking about the same issues and
> avoid duplication of effort, if possible.  Let me know what we can do to
> help.

Since the goal for A-A-P and SCons for autoconf-like features is almost
equal, I would certainly encourage Joerg to target both.  Not only will
this help a larger audience from the start, it also helps to make the
tool generic instead of locked into A-A-P.

In practice it would probably mean the config tool is able to produce
a file with settings in two formats: an A-A-P recipe and an SCons
script.  Putting the backend of writing the file separately would mostly
take care of this.  Sounds simple, doesn't it?

A bit more work would be to describe the tests that are to be executed.
For A-A-P these could be in a recipe format, for SCons in Python.
Although Python can be used in A-A-P as well, thus there are
possibilities to keep the differences small.

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