[Scons-dev] Argumentation for Python 2.6 support removal

[Bill Deegan]

Anatoly,

This is being done so we can use the future imports in python 2.7 to
provide 2&3 compatibility in the same codebase.

-Bill

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:47 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do we have any list specific incompatibilities with Python 2.6? What was
> the main reason for that sign. I am asking because it seems to me that
> consensus is being reached based on feelings instead of data, and
> that looks like a death spiral to me.
>
>     -- SUPPORT FOR PYTHON VERSIONS BEFORE 2.7 IS NOW DEPRECATED
>
>        ***IMPORTANT***: This release is the last version of SCons to
> support
>        Python versions older than 2.7.  This release will warn if you are
>        running on Python 2.6 or older; future releases will probably not
>        work at all, as we are moving toward supporting Python 3.
>        Use --warn=no-python-version to suppress the warning if needed.
>
> --
> anatoly t.
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