SConstruct question

[sergey-239]

Dear Joseph, there is the following code in SConstruct at lines 317 through 331:

    # Examples
    examples = []
    cmd = 'git ls-files examples/'
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
    examples = p.communicate()[0]
    if isinstance(examples, bytes): examples = examples.decode()
    examples = list(map(lambda x: [x, x], examples.split()))

    # Machines
    machines = []
    cmd = 'git ls-files machines/'
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
    machines = p.communicate()[0]
    if isinstance(machines, bytes): machines = machines.decode()
    machines = list(map(lambda x: [x, x], machines.split()))

I am not an expert in Python, so could you, please, clarify, what was the intent? Could this build dependency on git to be removed? Thanks in advance

[sergey-239]

Sorry, Joseph, the annoying warnings about missing git where not from this source.

[jcoffland]

To clarify those lines are getting the list of example and machine files which are checked in to git. This avoids accidentally packaging any temporary files or works in progress.