[Scons-dev] SCons.. the road ahead

[Bill Deegan]

Jason,

As I see it SCons 3.0 main feature would be that it would run on python
2.7.x and 3.x (same source/installer for both)

-Bill

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Jason Kenny <dragon512 at live.com> wrote:

> Is SCons 3 main feature, python 3 support?
> Jason
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> From: Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> Sent: ‎9/‎25/‎2015 5:56 PM
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> 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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