Re: [Opensg-core] [OpenSG 2] Build system, options file name

[Dirk R. <di...@in...>]

	Hi Allen,

Allen Bierbaum wrote:
>
> - Why separate build and install steps?  One of the nice things about 
> the current system is that even a local "build" is a full install.  I 
> guess if you really want an install step, it could be another "build" 
> that just triggers against a different target directory.

See other mail.

> - removal of scons-addons variants.  variants is an ugly hack to attempt 
> to solve a seemingly simple problem.  I would be very interested in 
> doing more then just removing variants, but possibly going a step 
> further and coming up with what variants really should be and how to 
> make it useful for other people and other projects.
> 
> Conceptually variants is meant to be a way to say "I want to build 
> debug/optimized/hybrid and I want to build on ia32/amd64/IA64 and ...".  
> Then the options (boost, opensg, etc) can use these known settings to 
> link against the correct libraries, use the right options, etc.  
> Unfortunately the implementation got a bit ugly.  Maybe you have some 
> ideas how to start from scratch and come up with something better.

I don't know, it seems to be more trouble than benefit. Just calling the 
build multiple times is very simple, and given that the only case where 
I can see myself running multiple builds at the same time (i.e. 
variants) is a dailybuild, where just calling multiple independent 
builds works just as well I really don't see the case for variants.

My $.02

	Dirk