[Scons-dev] SCons and Python 3

[Tim Jenness]

> On Sep 9, 2015, at 10:16 , Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> There is a flurry of activity on porting Bazaar so it run on Python
> 2.6+ and Python 3. There seems to be a consensus that assuming 3.4 as
> the base Python 3 version is a good idea.
> 
> SCons already assumes Python 2.7, but is there a base bugfix version?
> This matters as it determines how much of Python 3 can be assumed.
> 

I have no visibility into how the python3 scons branch is keeping up with current releases.

> Are we going to drop the requirement to run on Python 2.6? Currently
> 2.7 is the base but people keep making changes to have things run on
> 2.6.
> 

The last few release notes have been insistently stating that pythons older than 2.7 will no longer be supported by scons so this is a bit confusing if scons is still trying to support 2.6.

— 
Tim Jenness