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

[William Blevins]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 13:23 -0700, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> > Hi All--
> > The trouble with requiring a minimum of 2.7.x on all platforms is
> > that it
> > would be problematic for people on CentOS, Redhat and related distros
> > earlier than say, CentOS 7.  7 has 2.7, but 6 has 2.6 (and not the
> > latest
> > version, either).  Anyone who wanted to use CentOS 6 would have to
> > install
> > Python 2.7.x to use Scons.  Might not want to do it, or would go with
> > an
> > earlier version.
>
> Of course,…
>
> CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, etc. don't come with SCons so it has to
> be installed. Is it a hardship to have to install a version of Python
> as well as SCons? Not really, especially on these systems. Although the
> main repository doesn't have Python 3 necessarily, there are "add on"
> repositories for these distributions that certainly do. So it is just
> package management, unlike for SCons :-)
>
>
Debian 8 is also Python 2.7


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