[Scons-dev] SCons and Python 3.0

[Bill Deegan]

Russel,

Minor nit. RHEL7/Centos7 has python 2.7.5 so they haven't fixed themselves
at 2.6

-Bill

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 21:28 +0100, info at fibrecode.com wrote:
> > Question,
> >
> > what's going on on python3-port at all. Is it still active?
> > On https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/branch/python3-port last entry is
> April
> > 2014.
>
> No and yes.
>
> > I like scons and I like python3. I'm not sure, if people really need both
> > versions forever.
>
> Sadly Guido extended Python 2.7 EOL from 2017 to 2020, which is an
> admission it will never actually go away :-(
>
> On a more serious note, there are some applications, such as Mercurial,
> which have indicated they may never to move to Python 3 as they cannot
> deal with the change from ASCII to Unicode for strings.
>
> > I installed python2.7 just for scons, and many people are moving forward
> to
> > use python3 only.
>
> Some people do not have that luxury. Although Canonical have taken
> Ubuntu to Python 3, Red Hat are still shipping Python 2.6 as their
> up-to-date version of Python.
>
> I am a Python 3 only person and only have Python 2 for Mercurial and
> SCons. If I had my way Python 2 would be eradicated two years ago!
>
> > Why not put python2.7 in stable branch for maintenance only, and just
> work
> > on python3 in trunk.
>
> Pragmatically, the right place to be is Python 2.7 and Python 3.4
> compliance in a single code base. This is fairly straightforward
> compared to all other solutions, provided we can get the person power
> harnessed – not entirely straightforward in a project with only
> volunteer labour.
>
> It's a pity having said Python 2.7 is the floor version, we keep
> supporting 2.6. I understand why sort of, but it doesn't stop me
> complaining :-)
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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