I don't think that is a sane design, because the platform-specific code is 
largely interrelated to the common code. For example, all platforms build 
plugins, but use a slightly different method. This means you can't abstract 
the platform-dependent from the platform-independent.


On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:53:03 DavidW wrote:
> I agree w. refactoring. Similar to my desire to refactor the
> BuildingCsound manual page.
> (Would those I sent my draft to who haven't yet, please have a look at
> my suggestions and comment as necessary - there's currently nothing on
> how to do an install for OSX for example)
> I think a two-tiered structure is best:
> Tier 1: the SConstruct file (in parallel with SConstruct2  current
> SConstruct becomes redundant)
>
> 	All those things which are immutable across all platforms
> 	+ test for Platform and then include a Tier 2 file
> Tier 2:
> 	Everything platform specific. If in doubt, put stuff here.
> 	It should include the following sections:
> 		- clean to be otionally used b4 build
> 		- build
> 		- install
>
> David
>
> On 27/03/2008, at 11:17 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:58:17 Steven Yi wrote:
> >> Hi Felipe,
> >>
> >> I think this would be very useful work, but also have a hard time
> >> visualizing at the moment.  I think it might be useful if you were
> >> commit your work early but under a different name, SConstruct2
> >> perhaps, so that we could see in code what you are working on and
> >> also
> >> to see how this would impact development going forward.  Plus we
> >> could
> >> switch between the current build file and the SConstruct2 file using
> >> -f, which would be good for testing.
> >
> > Good idea. This file would of course start as a copy of SConstruct
> > (starting
> > from scratch would require much more work, and probably involve
> > rediscovering
> > problems with different platforms).
> >
> >> Are you planning SConscript files for each library then?  (If so, I
> >> think that would be a very good thing.)
> >
> > No. It's one SConscript for each folder. This way all related stuff is
> > together in a SConscript (for example, all opcodes, because they
> > build more
> > or less the same way).
>
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