[Scons-dev] SCons.. the road ahead

[Jason Kenny]

Is SCons 3 main feature, python 3 support?
Jason
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From: Bill Deegan<mailto:bill at baddogconsulting.com>
Sent: ‎9/‎25/‎2015 5:56 PM
To: SCons developer list<mailto:scons-dev at scons.org>
Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] SCons.. the road ahead

I guess the question is should that happen in 3.0 branch or default.
Since most likely it's in the core and not in the tools, I'm guessing none
of the outstanding pull requests will touch that..

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Alexandre Feblot <alexandre at feblot.fr>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Wasn't Dirk speaking of first cleaning some 2.6-ish code?
>
> *--*
> Alexandre Feblot
>
> Le 26 sept. 2015 à 00:02, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com> a écrit
> :
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:50 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> Here's what I'm thinking (Note I'm explicitly not discussing any
>>>> infrastructure changes here, bugtracker, git vs hg, etc, so please do not
>>>> chime in in this thread on those issues)
>>>>
>>>> 1) Merge any fairly trivial pull requests currently outstanding to
>>>> default branch
>>>> 2) Release 2.4.1 (And push to pypi)
>>>> 3) Merge cross language scanner pull request.
>>>> 4) Release 2.5.0 (and push to pypi)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I follow you up to here.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 5) Merge 3.0 branch to default and finish that once and for all.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this part high risk?  I assume that the 3.0 branch is still 2.7
>>> compliant.  If it is then, it should be fine.
>>>
>>
>> Yes the codebase should be Python 2.7.x and 3.x compat (where x is TBD
>> but most likely .10 and .3? respectively).
>>  No Python 3.x only SCons for the foreseeable future, at least in my
>> mind. Enough people are stuck at that with platforms they need to support
>> for a while.
>>
>
>
> Then I don't see any issues with this path forward.
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 6) Release a beta for 3.0
>>>> 7) Release 3.0
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> -Bill
>>>> SCons Project Co-Manager
>>>>
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