[Scons-dev] Should we remove python 3.5 from our CI tests

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Pretty certain Gary's with me in saying,
SCons will support Python 2.7 and 3.5+ in (at least) the 3.x releases.
Most likely through (at least) the end of 2018.


Yes, absolutely. SCons is used by lots of people on older legacy systems.
IMHO it is and needs to be a solid, reliable build tool, not (just) a
leading-edge dev tool.

-- Gary


On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:27 PM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Pretty certain Gary's with me in saying,
> SCons will support Python 2.7 and 3.5+ in (at least) the 3.x releases.
> Most likely through (at least) the end of 2018.
>
> I know many who actively participate in SCons community live on the
> leading edge of OS and Python releases but many users do not.
> Also, there are still some rough edges to our Python 3 support. Until it's
> rock solid (and no one has found an issue for a while), dropping py 2.7
> would be unwise.
>
>
> -Bill
> SCons Project Co-Manager.
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Jonathon Reinhart <
> jonathon.reinhart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > True but who uses Debian Stable for anything relating to software
>> > development, it is a server distribution.
>>
>> I'm not sure where you got the idea that Debian is a "server
>> distribution". Lots of people use Debian as a desktop OS, and my team
>> uses Debian for software development.
>>
>> I think SCons would be making a serious mistake if it dropped support
>> for Python 3.5. Just because the distro is using an older version of
>> SCons, doesn't mean that SCons shouldn't support the latest version of
>> Python available on the system.
>>
>> This is particularly troublesome for me as I consider putting together
>> a new build image, based on Debian 9, but with latest SCons installed
>> from source.
>>
>> I'm all for cleaning up old cruft, but it seems like removing support
>> for a version of Python that's less than 3 years old seems a bit
>> aggressive.
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Gary
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