[Scons-dev] SCons and Parts

[Tim Jenness]

> On Aug 10, 2016, at 09:02 , Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 08:40 -0500, Jason Kenny wrote:
>>  
>> 1)      Use six to get  Parts 3k compatible
> 
> I (with support!) rejected using six since without the need to support
> Python 2.6 future can be used instead. Future is much more lightweight
> than six.
> 
> I have to admit given the demise of Python 2 in 2020, I am all for
> ditching Python 2 support entirely. People wanting to continue to use
> Python 2 should be quite happy using an older version of SCons.
> 

That would help a lot. I got bogged down in a lot of unicode subtleties in my attempt at python3 porting. About 2/3 of the tests pass but most of the failures are bytes/string issues. I’ve now had to work on other things.

— 
Tim Jenness