On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 21:28 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Question, > > what's going on on python3-port at all. Is it still active? > On https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/branch/python3-port last entry is April > 2014.
No and yes. > I like scons and I like python3. I'm not sure, if people really need both > versions forever. Sadly Guido extended Python 2.7 EOL from 2017 to 2020, which is an admission it will never actually go away :-( On a more serious note, there are some applications, such as Mercurial, which have indicated they may never to move to Python 3 as they cannot deal with the change from ASCII to Unicode for strings. > I installed python2.7 just for scons, and many people are moving forward to > use python3 only. Some people do not have that luxury. Although Canonical have taken Ubuntu to Python 3, Red Hat are still shipping Python 2.6 as their up-to-date version of Python. I am a Python 3 only person and only have Python 2 for Mercurial and SCons. If I had my way Python 2 would be eradicated two years ago! > Why not put python2.7 in stable branch for maintenance only, and just work > on python3 in trunk. Pragmatically, the right place to be is Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 compliance in a single code base. This is fairly straightforward compared to all other solutions, provided we can get the person power harnessed – not entirely straightforward in a project with only volunteer labour. It's a pity having said Python 2.7 is the floor version, we keep supporting 2.6. I understand why sort of, but it doesn't stop me complaining :-) -- 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
