[Scons-dev] Would requiring Python 2.7.4 or above be a problem for future release?

[Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)]

Support for python 3 is good. breaking python 2.7 which is very not dead yet is not so good

From: scons-dev at scons.org At: Nov 25 2015 21:07:01
To: scons-dev at scons.org
Cc: scons-users at scons.org
Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] Would requiring Python 2.7.4 or above be a problem for future release?

On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 11:36 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> My opinion that Python 3 is a trap. Before going this way and
> breaking
> stuff, just
> try to port anything to this language to see for yourself. Mercurial
> is still Python 2
> and many other tools.
> 

Python 3 is the future not a trap. Mercurial made a design decision
that they are choosing not to change and are sticking with Python 2 to
avoid what is claimed to be vast amounts of work. Mercurial is a Python
outlier, not a mainstream application.

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