Mats Wichmann

Microsoft toolset 14.40 does not work with SCons 4.7 and earlier

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This was an anticipated issue (see Discussion #4484) but now it has landed (late May 2024) and indeed things break. Visual Studio 17.10 has released now, and with it a...

A call like: `scons SKIPUTILS="NSIS Menu"` for `ListVariable` `SKIPUTILS`, with a space embedded in the value and thus given quoted, did not work, as the splitting of `ListVariable` into separate...

`AppendUnique` and `PrependUnique`, when called with `delete_existing` true, had a small logic flaw: it might remove an existing value if the value to be added s a scalar (string, most...

This was encountered while investigating #4585, which escaped detection as there was no test for the specific case. Somewhat surprisingly, in trying to add such a test, an end-to-end test...

Don't let deletions leak from OverrideEnvironment

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**EDITED** This PR changes two things about ``OverrideEnvirionment``: 1. The existing `__del__` method removed its argument from the override dict, and from the construction variable dict in the underlying environment...

This information is collected from the discord thread at https://discord.com/channels/571796279483564041/1262451038435414027 Filing this to make sure it's captured, I did not discover it. It is reported that sometimes dependencies are not...

This information is collected from the discord thread at https://discord.com/channels/571796279483564041/1262451038435414027 Filing this to make sure it's captured, I did not discover it. In the ninja tool, in the file `SCons/Tool/ninja/Utils.py`,...

This is a summary of the topic brought up on the mailing list at https://pairlist4.pair.net/pipermail/scons-users/2024-July/009378.html With SCons 4.8.0, the package building information transitioned from `setup.cfg` to `pyproject.toml` (see PR #4541)....

OverrideEnvironment problems with env._dict

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The `OverrideEnvironment` class is a proxy, but it's passed around like a normal env by the rest of SCons - it's supposed to behave like one, but there's one particular...

Should `traceback.FrameSummary` have a "slice" overload?

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The (relatively new - 3.5+) `FrameSummary` object *does* support slicing in a limited way like old frames did, as it indexes into a tuple, but the typeshed stubs don't have...