[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: proposal for a test harness
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:16:46 -0600
What else does SCONS require besides Python? What compilers does it use,
especially on Windows? My Windows compilers seem to have been destroyed
by a recent update.
Thanks,
John
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:42:12PM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I guess it comes back to a question put by Jamie from the NVDA team. Why
> not use SCons? SCons uses python, so if the test harness requires Python
> and if SCons were used then that would mean only Python is required. I
> believe the NVDA team have SCons build files for liblouis.
>
> NOTE: I am probably biased towards SCons as I know Python but not perl and
> I haven't really ever got to grips with the autoconf and make stuff, when I
> look at the SCons documentation I get the feeling I stand a chance of
> understanding that.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Egli
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:29 PM
> To: John J. Boyer
> Cc: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: proposal for a test harness
>
> "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >For my instruction, what is the advantage of perl over Python. Both are
> >usually installed.
>
> Your mileage may vary but from my pov Python is a much nicer language.
> However, since autotools requires Perl anyway, we require Perl to build
> liblouis. So far a user doesn't need Python to build liblouis. If we
> write a test harness in Python we ask the user to install Python, at
> least to run the test harness. But I think it isn't such a big problem:
> we can make the test harness optional depending on the existence a
> Python installation, i.e. liblouis can be built without running the test
> harness.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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