[Scons-dev] plan for python3 port?

[Neal Becker]

Russel Winder wrote:


> On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 09:10 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

> […]

>> Yes.  A lot of preliminary work has been done; the current version

>> announces upcoming deprecation of anything older than 2.7, primarily

>> because that's the floor for making 2 and 3 compatible code.

> 

> It transpires that if you ignore Pythons 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2, it is

> relatively easy to make a single code base run with Pythons 2.6, 2.7 and

> 3.3. But as SCons has already declared the floor version to be 2.7, it

> is easier. However it still requires person hours to achieve which have

> not yet materialized. Not entirely surprising given the core team have

> to earn money from sources other than SCons.

> 

> What is needed is for an organization or three to stump up some cash to

> hire a few people to be able to work on it. I am confident it is not

> that hard, just a lot of (possibly tedious) editing.

> 


So you are thinking this is not an easy task that could be handled by some 
volunteers?  I was thinking we could just setup a branch in whatever dvcs is 
used by scons, and start hacking.