[Scons-dev] plan for python3 port?

[Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)]

Those of us who aren't so active and are still on python 2.6 are going to be less happy, especially if we aren't entirely in control of which version of python we get to use.

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From: scons-dev at scons.org
To: scons-dev at scons.org
At: Sep  4 2013 19:54:02

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 13:57 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
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> 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.


It is a straightforward (albeit potentially not fascinating) task that
can be handled by anyone with reasonable Python skills and the kit to
run the tests. The issue is that the people who are currently active on
this list have not had the volunteer cycles to get active.

If anyone has cycles to clone the Mercurial repository on BitBucket,
start hacking on the default branch (no "feature branches" as this is
Mercurial) to remove all code not needed for Python 2.7 and 3.3, ensure
the tests pass using both 2.7 and 3.3, and submit pull requests via
BitBucket, then the entire SCons community will be immensely happy! 

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