[Scons-dev] GSOC this year?

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Bill,

On 28.03.2013 19:50, William Deegan wrote:

> All,

>

> We need to turn in the proposal by tomorrow.

>

> ...

> Here's some other thoughts I have:

> * Change SCons code to be runnable on py2.7 and py3.0

> * Get SCons to work better/at all on cygwin

> * Change code to use more modern constructs (slots, generators/iterators)


the code changes for #1 and #3 could possibly be wrapped/implemented in 
the form of fixer scripts, just as Steven and Greg had done for the 
switch to Python 2.4? One could add a little testing setup (based on our 
current QMTest framework, and pylint maybe) for CI, ensuring that no 
examples or tests are broken by the rewrites. This would make the task 
easily scalable and open-ended in a way. Just as an idea...

Best regards,

Dirk