[Scons-dev] Formal proposal

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 17:48 -0500, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
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> What do we gain specifically by desupporting 2.6?  Do things become easier?

>  I guess I like Jason's idea of trying for 2.6, but if we find anything

> that's ugly or difficult or hurts performance or whatever, we drop 2.6 and

> go for 2.7.  But of course if you know of 2.6 issues already, then I'm fine

> with 2.7.


Python 3 features are being backported to 2.7 as much as is feasible,
but not to 2.6. Things like set comprehensions, dictionary
comprehensions, lots of other interesting goodies. With statement and
context managers are the crux of course, and some Python 2 libraries are
not Python 3 compatible.

Given that there will not be a Python 2.8 unless ice intrudes on Hell,
Python 2.7 will have a weird status. Python 2.6 though undergoes the
normal lifecycle, which means central support will decay fairly soon. 

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