[Scons-dev] SCons default branch open for python 2.7/3.x work. Please submit pull requests

[William Blevins]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 13:02 +0100, William Blevins wrote:
> > Two Questions,
> >
> > 1. Are we working out of scons__python3 or merging scons__python3 and
> > working there?
>
> With SCons 2.5.0 released and a maintenance branch created, this is a
> most pertinent question. :-) I
>
> > 2. Many of the failing tests are from embedded code blocks in the
> > tests
> > which futurize and six didn't update automatically. Should the update
> > process here be "make the embedded code its own file when reasonably
> > possible" or "just make minimal updates for now"?
>
> I had been doing minimal changes, clearly not enough.
>
> I would be strongly in favour of having Python code as separate files
> not as strings in other Python code if at all possible. However, there
> will always be some cases where code in strings in code is the right
> thing to do.
>
>

Agreed, but I could also see an argument for keeping the changes simple
because of the number of changes that will be required for historical
reasons and doing cleanup once our goal is reached, so I wanted to make
sure that if I did some cleanup that it was reasonable.


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