[Scons-users] strange behavior with path as an array

[robert zeigler]

It is issue 2917, but currently marked as invalid. I can reopen if you'd
like.

I agree that's it's not a huge priority. It's just a stumbling block that I
hit. More accurately, I have been evangelizing scons where I work, and a
co-worker hit the issue and we burned a lot of time figuring out what was
going wrong.


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>wrote:


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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

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>> Robert,

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>> On 12.09.2013 21:54, robert zeigler wrote:

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>>> Hi Dirk,

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>>> I realize the form is invalid, and I don't expect scons to support it.

>>> As a user, my expectation is that scons would have detected the unsupported

>>> form and thrown an error early. [...]

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>> detecting unsupported forms and sanely reacting to them, is a kind of

>> support in itself. And trying to detect all unsupported constructs (what

>> about "path = ['/path1:/path2', ['/path3', '/path4']]" ?) is like opening a

>> very big can of worms. ;)

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>> What you say is true of course.  But there does seem to be something odd

> here about the way it fails.  It's worth understanding why -- Robert, if

> you could at least submit a bug report that would be helpful.  As Dirk says

> though it probably can't be top priority at the moment. :-)

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> Gary

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