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  r1441 | stevenknight | 2006-04-22 23:06:53 -0400 (Sat, 22 Apr 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D397 - The scons command, branch 0.96.91.
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  r1442 | stevenknight | 2006-04-27 00:45:12 -0400 (Thu, 27 Apr 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D398 - The scons command, branch 0.96.92.
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  r1443 | stevenknight | 2006-04-27 00:49:25 -0400 (Thu, 27 Apr 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D399 - Taskmaster clean-ups in anticipation of refactoring speedups.
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  r1450 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 00:04:55 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D400 - Fix VC+++ 2005 Express detection. (Atul Varma) Fix parsing Intel C compiler Li
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  r1451 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 01:14:24 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D401 - Enhance ParseConfig() to understand -arch and -isysroot options. (Gary Oberbrun
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  r1458 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 23:21:04 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D402 - Make strfunction handling consistent. (David Gruener)
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  r1459 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 23:37:08 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D403 - Comment out the test of CVS checkout from the old tigris.org repository.
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  r1460 | stevenknight | 2006-05-03 23:47:54 -0400 (Wed, 03 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D404 - Preserve white space in display Action string. (David Gruener)
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  r1461 | stevenknight | 2006-05-04 09:16:15 -0400 (Thu, 04 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D405 - Add MergeFlags() and AddFlags() methods. (Greg Noel) Support recognizing compi
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  r1462 | stevenknight | 2006-05-04 23:46:53 -0400 (Thu, 04 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D406 - Fix stack trace when ParseFlags has a null string.
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  r1464 | stevenknight | 2006-05-05 17:21:27 -0400 (Fri, 05 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D408 - Fix the string displayed by InstallAs() when called through the default construc
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  r1465 | stevenknight | 2006-05-05 18:30:28 -0400 (Fri, 05 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D409 - Fix test/ParseConfig.py, broken in the previous checkin by ParseFlags() changes.
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  r1466 | stevenknight | 2006-05-05 20:42:35 -0400 (Fri, 05 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D407 - Avoid recursive calls to main() in SConf test programs. (Karol Pietrzak)
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  r1467 | stevenknight | 2006-05-06 00:27:21 -0400 (Sat, 06 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D410 - Catch errors from commands that ParseConfig() calls. (John Pye)
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  r1468 | stevenknight | 2006-05-06 10:55:38 -0400 (Sat, 06 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D411 - Significant taskmaster speedup by using reference counts, not list manipulation.
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  r1469 | stevenknight | 2006-05-06 18:38:02 -0400 (Sat, 06 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D413 - TeX improvements.
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  r1471 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 09:07:58 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Delete properties interfering with clean .jpg checkout.
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  r1472 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 09:23:54 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D412 - Windows portability fixes for two tests and ParseConfig() execution.
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  r1473 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 09:30:11 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D414 - Various man page and documentation updates.
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  r1474 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 23:53:12 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D415 - Initial infrastructure for executing tests under QMTest. (Stefan Seefeld)
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  r1476 | stevenknight | 2006-05-09 00:03:47 -0400 (Tue, 09 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D416 - Fix QMTest infrastructure to avoid listing directories with no tests and to find
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  r1477 | stevenknight | 2006-05-16 06:47:51 -0400 (Tue, 16 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D417 - Fix Alias turning Entries into Nodes or Dirs too soon.
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  r1478 | stevenknight | 2006-05-17 08:32:58 -0400 (Wed, 17 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D418 - Next QMTest changes (including fixing copyrights).
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  r1479 | stevenknight | 2006-05-18 05:07:06 -0400 (Thu, 18 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D419 - Fix DVIPDF tests after recent changes.
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  r1497 | stevenknight | 2006-05-23 08:47:01 -0400 (Tue, 23 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D420 - Better error message when trying to build a file from an unknown sufix. (Gary O
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  r1498 | stevenknight | 2006-05-23 09:38:52 -0400 (Tue, 23 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D421 - Suppress duplicate entries in latest TeX patch. (Joel B. Mohler)
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  r1499 | stevenknight | 2006-05-23 22:00:06 -0400 (Tue, 23 May 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D422 - Add tests for tuple variable expansion. (Gary Oberbrunner)
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  r1515 | stevenknight | 2006-06-12 06:44:24 -0400 (Mon, 12 Jun 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D423 - More QMTest work: start giving runtest.py its own tests, more functionality for
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  r1517 | stevenknight | 2006-06-21 07:34:30 -0400 (Wed, 21 Jun 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D424 - Move test/Configure.py and test/Options.py to avoid confusion with similarly-nam
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  r1518 | stevenknight | 2006-06-21 12:40:37 -0400 (Wed, 21 Jun 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D425 - Change the QMTest infrastructure to use File naming, not Python. Rename tests w
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  r1533 | stevenknight | 2006-07-23 20:10:08 -0400 (Sun, 23 Jul 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D426 - Fix ramifications of changing when Node disambiguation happens.
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  r1535 | stevenknight | 2006-07-24 06:40:43 -0400 (Mon, 24 Jul 2006) | 3 lines

  Initialized merge tracking via "svnmerge" with revisions "1-1534" from
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  r1536 | stevenknight | 2006-07-24 21:45:40 -0400 (Mon, 24 Jul 2006) | 2 lines

  Remove svnmerge-integrated property to start over.
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  r1538 | stevenknight | 2006-07-24 21:51:32 -0400 (Mon, 24 Jul 2006) | 3 lines

  Initialized merge tracking via "svnmerge" with revisions "1-1440" from
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diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Job.py b/src/engine/SCons/Job.py
index 60eb861..cb8a77a 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Job.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Job.py
@@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ class Serial:
         that needs to be executed, or None if there are no more tasks. The
         taskmaster's executed() method will be called for each task when it
         is successfully executed or failed() will be called if it failed to
-        execute (e.g. execute() raised an exception). The taskmaster's
-        is_blocked() method will not be called.  """
+        execute (e.g. execute() raised an exception)."""
         
         self.taskmaster = taskmaster
 
@@ -193,20 +192,17 @@ else:
         def __init__(self, taskmaster, num):
             """Create a new parallel job given a taskmaster.
 
-            The taskmaster's next_task() method should return the next task
-            that needs to be executed, or None if there are no more tasks. The
-            taskmaster's executed() method will be called for each task when it
-            is successfully executed or failed() will be called if the task
-            failed to execute (i.e. execute() raised an exception).  The
-            taskmaster's is_blocked() method should return true iff there are
-            more tasks, but they can't be executed until one or more other
-            tasks have been executed. next_task() will be called iff
-            is_blocked() returned false.
-
-            Note: calls to taskmaster are serialized, but calls to execute() on
-            distinct tasks are not serialized, because that is the whole point
-            of parallel jobs: they can execute multiple tasks
-            simultaneously. """
+            The taskmaster's next_task() method should return the next
+            task that needs to be executed, or None if there are no more
+            tasks. The taskmaster's executed() method will be called
+            for each task when it is successfully executed or failed()
+            will be called if the task failed to execute (i.e. execute()
+            raised an exception).
+
+            Note: calls to taskmaster are serialized, but calls to
+            execute() on distinct tasks are not serialized, because
+            that is the whole point of parallel jobs: they can execute
+            multiple tasks simultaneously. """
 
             self.taskmaster = taskmaster
             self.tp = ThreadPool(num)