[pypy-dev] Scons?

[holger krekel]

Hello Charles,

[Charles Crain Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:41:11AM -0600]
> (in response to Holger Krekel's question about SCons)
> 
> I am on the SCons development team, and can answer any questions you
> have about using SCons for PyPython.  It's still "technically" in Alpha,
> which by our definition simply means it is not feature complete.
> However, the features it does have are extremely stable and
> well-tested...we have a very large automated test suite, a rigorous
> testing process, and a growing user community.

that sounds great. 

> We make releases about once a month (we try to anyway), and we are
> theoretically only a handful of releases away from a first final
> version.

We probably need a couple of more releases for our first final :-)

> We'd be very entusiastic about being included in a high-profile (and
> technically really cool) project like PyPython.  Please let us know if
> we can do anything for you.  Feel free to email me or post to the
> scons-users email list (information at www.scons.org).

I suggest that some sprint-people try to supplant SCons on current 
CPython with our own architecture in mind.  I haven't really planned 
details yet because i am too busy in physical organization.  However,
it would be very good if some of the SCons and PyPy people 
could communicate next week to help if there are problems. 
Thanks a lot for your offer and cooperation!

As we plan to run on top of CPython first it makes a lot
of sense to have SCons drive the CPython build and thus
get rid of make/configure dependencies.  It's also a good 
release goal for our sprint.  The real challenge here is 
to have a scheme for taking current CPython-cvs as an 
"upstream" and have a system for keeping in
sync what we take out of CPython into our CPython-PyPy.

cheers,

    holger