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

[Bill Deegan]

2.7 or 2.7.0 ?

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 7:39 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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