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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:49:52AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:43:07AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:06 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >> > On 8/20/10 3:02 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> >> > > Should we remove the Scons build system to force testing of the new
> >> > > CMake build system?
> >> >
> >> > It'd get me to try it.
> >> >
> >>
> >> For this reason, I say remove it. It's the best way to get people
> >> testing.
> >
> > Agree. I'll remove it and hope Johannes does not object
> > terribly. After all, he's the one who got us started on CMake.
>
> What about backwards compatibility?

I'm not sure build system is a part of being backwards compatible.
The packages (and soon Dorsal) will still work as usual.

> Can't we just add a deprecation
> warning and remove it after the next release?
>
> And it will surely break the buildbots.

That's good as it will help us improve the build system. :-)

--
Anders