[glob2-devel] more SCons questions

[Stéphane Magnenat]

Hi,

I'm looking at diverse SConstruct towards the goal of building the deb. Yet 
there is undocumented code whose reason of existance is not obvious for me:
- in main SConstruct, why does PackTar have case for files beginning with "/", 
this does not happen in glob2?
- why is "dist" and "install" targets considered together? I imagine that it 
is to iterate on files only once but that reduce readability, specially 
because there is a test in PackTar to exclude the non "dist" case.
- path seems to be concatenated by hand, shouldn't we use os.path.join() ?
- top level script is named SConstruct, while branch ones are call SConscript, 
is it a normal convention?

It would be very good if people who wrote glob2 scons scripts could answer 
those questions/cleanup/document a bit the scripts.

I plan to write the debian target using a PackDeb function, which puts the 
files in deb/..., then creates the control file and call dpkg-deb,, in the 
idea of what is explained here:
http://www.qandr.org/quentin/writings/debscons.html

Thanks, have a nice daiy,

Steph

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