Re: command dependencies broken

[Timothee Besset]

The cvs version isn't so broken. The only issue I know about it is the
Install / InstallAs problem (also known as command dependencies). I use
cons from cvs patched with pcons patch all day long, and I'd just want
this to be fixed before it's declared stable and good for a final release.

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/pcons/

TTimo

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:17:26 +0200 (MEST)
Johan Holmberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Timothee Besset wrote:
> >
> > Please please please tell me that someone is going to look into this. SK?
> >
> > TTimo
> >
> 
> And until it is fixed it would be a good idea to withdraw 2.3.0
> from the Web-site. *Something* has to be done. Just saying
> (like Rajesh did May 23):
> 
> > 1. Cons is a live project.. I have no plans whatsoever of
> >    letting it die.
> 
> will not make anyone happy. The (lack of) actions speak for
> themselves.
> 
> I think I know the Cons source quite well (at least a while ago).
> But when I tried to read the current code that decides if a rebuild
> is necessary, I couldn't make any sense of it. Nested conditionals
> statements and generally quite incomprehensible code ....
> I spent several hours trying to understand just a couple of lines of
> code.
> 
> If Cons should stay alive the code must be possible to understand.
> 
> If noone understands the current code (not even Steven who
> wrote it ???) I would suggest reverting to a version before the
> changes where introduced.
> 
> Keeping 2.3.0 on the Web-site makes Cons look like a broken program
> and a dead project.
> 
> /Johan Holmberg
> 
> 
>