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

[William Blevins]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> William,
>
> The logic I was looking at is in src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py
> Where env['SPAWN'] & env['PSPAWN'] are defined.
>

Yeah. It looks like all the funky Windows api calls and spawnve
redefinition should be removable with 2.7 requirement.


>
> I missed seeing the file you reference, but indeed if we're at 2.7, then
> this file should no longer be necessary?
>
> -Bill
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:00 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If I understand correctly, the idea here is to move away from a custom
>> Popen implementation in "src/engine/SCons/compat/_scons_subprocess.py" to
>> using the Python subprocess implementation.
>>
>> Unless that file is no longer used and we are still generating a warning
>> for no reason.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Jason Kenny <dragon512 at live.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am unclear on why this version. Part has only been using ctypes since
>>> 2.6 for everything win32
>>>
>>> Why would this version of python be the needed. I would think everything
>>> should be easy to switch.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
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>>> From: Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>>> Sent: ‎11/‎18/‎2015 12:20 PM
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>>> Subject: [Scons-dev] Would requiring Python 2.7.4 or above be a problem
>>> for future release?
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> To drop the requirement for pywin32, it may be necessary to require
>>> python 2.7.4 or above.
>>>
>>> Will this cause anyone significant issues?
>>>
>>> _Bill
>>>
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