Part of the problem was scons not being Python 3 compatible, part of the 
problem was a lot of too clever workarounds (using monkey patching) around the 
way file encoding was managed in the script (in order to try to fix the way 
unicode was handled in Python2, oh irony).

so maybe someone clever will be able to fix that, but i'm not that guy.

Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Russel Winder" <[email protected]>
> À: [email protected]
> Envoyé: Vendredi 27 Novembre 2015 19:12:57
> Objet: Re: challenges through Java modules (aka jigsaw)
> 
> On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 13:39 +0100, Remi Forax wrote:
> > Hi Cendric,
> > 
> > I'm not sure it's a good idea to introduce breaking changes in
> > Groovy,
> > as an anecdote, yesterday, i've started my day by converting a build
> > script written in Python from 2 to 3, it was still not working at
> > noon, so we decide to convert it to Gradle ...
> […]
> 
> My disbelief level has shot up, how can a bunch of clever people fail
> to easily convert Python 2 code to Python 3 code?
> 
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