Just to clarify. I am assuming that the python3 baseline requires 2.7+, and the current 2.X baseline is still supposed to support 2.6+. If this is wrong, then I need some clarification because "someone" informed me incorrectly or my memory sucks or both.
V/R, William On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 11:50 -0400, William Blevins wrote: > > I think the short answer is yes, we are trying to support 2.6 in the > > future. I agree with this notion since I would like RHEL6 default python > > support, but wouldn't cry if I had to use a custom 2.7 install. The real > > question here is why is there confusion about this, and why does SCons > > since 2.3.0 complain about pre-2.7 versus pre-2.6 if we are trying to > > support 2.6? That is a question I cannot answer... I think that we > should > > either drop 2.6 support or fix the documentation and development > > expectations. Maybe the confusion with 2.7 is related to python 3 > support? > > Once that branch roles out we probably cannot reasonably expect to > support > > 2.6. > > The problem here, as you hint at, is that a decision was made that 2.7 > was the base version, but the documentation was inconsistent with the > decision and now people are trying to fix perfectly good 2.7 code to > work with 2.6. The confusion is caused by the confusion :-) > > So we need an explicit move, either 2.7 is the base and the > documentation changes or the 2.7 decision is rescinded and a new one to > say 2.6 is the base is made. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev > >
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