[scons-dev] SOC Project Idea: Winelib-aware scons

[Greg Noel]

On Mar 22, 2009, at 4:47 AM, King InuYasha wrote:

> Does SCons support the project-within-a-project build style that is  
> used in Visual Studio? ...

SCons is amazingly policy-neutral, and we work to keep it that way.   
(It has occasionally been a bone of contention, when people have  
wanted us to support a particular development model by enforcing rules  
to exclude other styles.)  In other words, there's nothing to prevent  
the VS style, although there's nothing that specifically "supports"  
it, either.

> Additionally, since a lot of sources have mixed case, you would need  
> to have some sort of check for that built into the analysis. ...

I think this is what concerns me more than anything else.  I don't  
think SCons itself should be in the business of auto-magically  
converting sources.  Maybe providing tools to help the user convert,  
but even that is pushing the envelope.

> ... I did find the sources for the project importer, ...

Unfortunately, that's in C++ and we're a pure Python shop.  Moreover,  
I suspect the license is incompatible (it seems to use the GNU virus,  
while we use the MIT license).  But it's a useful reference and I'll  
hang on to it; thanks.

Hope this helps,
-- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru